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Contents:
- POOL BOYS: THE SUMMER GAY SCENE AT THE RAVEN POOL NEW HOPE
- ‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945
- THE GAY VERSN OF SI'S SWIMSU ISSUE
POOL BOYS: THE SUMMER GAY SCENE AT THE RAVEN POOL NEW HOPE
Every year, gay men fan out for summer fun. But the pool at New Hope’s the Raven remas the statn for “daddi” and the young men they admire. * gay pool boys *
Every year, gay men fan out farther and wir for summer fun.
‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945
Wele to the Pool at the you don’t know the Pool, ’s probably bee you’re not gay, boozy or particularly randy, or preferably all three.
But ’s been a summertime staple for gay men om Philly, New York, New Jersey and parts of what is monly lled “Pennsyltucky” for s — New Hope’s crown jewel when to summer gay tourism. When a gay man texts “I’m gog to the pool, ” ’s no mystery which one — ’s not his pool, or a pool, but the Pool.
But if you’re gay and not sippg mojos at the Chelsea Atlantic Cy or whiffg poppers Rehoboth, you’re at the Pool — part of a bed gay bar/motel operatn — baskg s glisteng bawds.
THE GAY VERSN OF SI'S SWIMSU ISSUE
3, which is everyone else — a loose llectn of sociable gays summoned to the water as if by gravatnal pull, neon pool noodl potg skyward. It’s like circle time at gay summer, gays are assiatg at a faster pace than ever before. When a gay uple mov to the hoe next door, the neighborhood … boys will be boys, and this will never change: At certa tim, the tribe wants to vort s own playpen.