The Ramble is a wood area suated the middle of Central Park, between 72nd and 79th Streets. It was notor for beg a "meetg place" for gay men, not unlike Fire Island's Meat Rack, only ls safe. Acrdg to Wikipedia, "Sce at least the early 20th century, the secln...
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The wt si of that 30-acre sectn of Central Park known as the Ramble had a reputatn as a homosexual meetg ground long before Cole teased his iends at private parti wh this suggtive lyric. But though Central Park at night—any part of the park—is dangero, the gay ghetto that is the Ramble is perhaps the sectn most fear-ridn.
You don’t have to be gay.
But the shadowy dangers are sharp ntrast to the sereny of the sun-flecked arboreal mec the Ramble be for thoands of gay men throughout each day. The sun, the strollg, even the solu, and the natural bety of the park’s most bulic pse—more than the opportuny for a sual sexual enunter the bh—are the mags that for much of this century have ma the Ramble the cy’s bt-known outdoor gatherg place for gays. The Ramble has been the public eye ever sce the asslt July 5 by a gang of anti-gay toughs who, at 9:30, jt a ltle after dk that Wednday, went wadg wh baseball bats, bashg any men they thought were gay.