July 5. 1978: A gang of anti-gay youth, went stormg through The Rambl area of Central Park New York Cy wh baseball bats, bashg any men they thought…
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GAY HISTORY – JULY 5: THE CENTRAL PARK GAY BASHG SPREE OF 1978, JEAN COCTE AND GAY SOLDIER MURRED AT FORT CAMPBELL.
Is the Ramble Central Park still a part of ntemporary gay life New York?
Readg this article seems that due to a variety of factors Central Park, and specifilly the area around the Ramble, was a major factor gay life for much of the 20th century.
In today's world, where grdr and gay bars are fairly ubiquo, do the park still make up any element of ntemporary gay life? The area ntas several large parks, cludg Fort Tryon’s bulic green space wh sweepg Hudson River views and several wood areas that have long been known as cisg spots, particularly for gay Fort Tryon, cy officials met wh rints 2015 about the public-sex displays, and me up wh a preventive strategy: A cha-lk fence was stalled to block accs to the popular hidn spot; nearby, overgrown plantgs ver another area that had drawn Harlem’s Marc Garvey Park, rints a towerg ndomium across the street on Fifth Avenue have long plaed about their view of “the mounta” — a rocky rise of New York schist about 70 feet high where people meet for sex or to e moved away bee of the sordid sights, said Syria Asberry-Chrfield, a longtime rint and advote the gentrifyg neighborhood around the park. “I don’t see any evince that public sex has been rced; certaly has not gone away, ” said Dunn Osborne, an associate edor at Gay Cy News who has wrten on the policg of gay sex cy parks.