The Secret Gay History of the World Tra Center | GQ

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• THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF THE WORLD TRA CENTER
• NEW DOCUMENTARY UNVERS THE WORLD TRA CENTER'S SECRET CISG CULTURETHE SHORT PREMIER AT THIS WEEK'S SXSW FILM {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY CHRISTOPHER RUDOLPHMARCH 19, 2021/9:42 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:2878PX;WIDTH:4279PX;}PETER J. ECKEL/THE LIFE IMAG COLLECTNNEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 1976: GROUND VIEW LOOKG UP AT THE WORLD TRA CENTER TOWERS. (PHOTO BY PETER J. ECKEL/THE LIFE IMAG COLLECTN VIA GETTY IMAG/GETTY IMAG)BY CHRISTOPHER RUDOLPHMARCH 19, 2021 / 9:42 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"NEW DOCUMENTARY UNVERS THE WORLD TRA CENTER'S SECRET CISG CULTURE","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2021-03-19T13:42:49.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2021-03-19T13:42:49.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"CHRISTOPHER RUDOLPH","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IF YOU KNOW ANYTHG ABOUT NEW YORK CY'S QUEER HISTORY, THEN YOU HAVE PROBABLY HEARD OF THE PREVALENT GAY CISG THAT OCCURRED AROUND THE WT VILLAGE, THE CHRISTOPHER STREET PIER, AND THE RAMBLE CENTRAL PARK. BUT ONE PLACE THAT FEW KNOW EXISTED WAS THE CISG GROUNDS AND AROUND THE WORLD TRA CENTER PLEX LOWER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CIRC OF BOOKS PRODUCER ADAM BARAN IS SHG A LIGHT ON THAT SECRET CISG HISTORY THE NEW DOCUMENTARY SHORT TRA CENTER, MAKG S WORLD PREMIERE THIS WEEK AT SXSW.TRA {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I FIRST HEARD ABOUT THE CISG AREAS AT THE WORLD TRA CENTER OM MY IEND BILLY MILLER, THE EDOR OF THE LEGENDARY STRAIGHT-TO-HELL ZE, WHICH PIL TE SEX STORI OM GAY MEN," BARAN TELLS NEWNOWNEXT. "BILLY WROTE AN CREDIBLE ARTICLE ABOUT THE WTC'S CISG HISTORY FOR A BOOK LLED PETE MORT: RELLECTNS OF A QUEER PUBLIC (EDED BY JOSHUA LUB LEVY AND CARLOS MOTTA). I ED THIS ARTICLE AS THE BASIS FOR TRA CENTER AND RERD BILLY'S NARRATN LAST YEAR PRR TO THE PANMIC."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SHORT FEATUR FIRSTHAND ACUNTS OM GAY MEN WHO WENT CISG AREAS SUCH AS AN UNRGROUND STAIRWELL, AND EVEN A BATHROOM LOTED ONE OF THE TW {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WE SHOT THE FILM LATE FEBARY 2020, AND I WOUND UP FDG FOUR OTHER SUBJECTS WHO ALSO GAVE ME TTIMONIALS ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENC CISG AT THE WTC," BARAN NTU. "I WAS ALWAYS SO FASCATED THAT THERE WAS SENTIALLY A HISTORY OF A SECRET CISG CULTURE THAT NOBODY REALLY KNEW ABOUT, AND WANTED TO EXAME THE FACTORS BEHD THAT ERASURE AND ALSO CELEBRATE THE POWER OF PHYSIL SPAC FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE TO MEET AND FORM NNECTNS OF ALL KDS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BARAN SAYS THAT CISG AND CISG CULTURE PLAYS AN IMPORTANT PART GAY HISTORY, BUT "'S AN ASPECT THAT MANY GAY PEOPLE WOULD RATHER NOT DISCS FOR FEAR THAT RERC NEGATIVE STEREOTYP ABOUT GAY PEOPLE BEG UNNTROLLABLE SEXUAL MONSTERS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"IN REALY, FOR CENTURI GAY PEOPLE HAD TO LIVE UNRGROUND LIV, MEETG SECRET SPAC WHETHER FOR SOCIALIZG OR SEXUAL SATISFACTN, OR BOTH," HE EXPLAS. "A SECLUD BATHROOM, A REMOTE BEACH, A 42ND STREET PORN THEATER, OR AS THE SE OF THE WORLD TRA CENTER, A STAIRWELL THE PARKG GARAGE — THE SERVED AS SPAC WHERE GAY MEN OF DIFFERENT CLASS, RAC, AND EXPERIENC WERE ABLE TO TERACT WAYS THEY ULD NOT SO-LLED POLE SOCIETY. THE NNECTNS STRENGTHENED OUR MUNY AND ENABLED TO SURVIVE, FD LOVERS, IENDS, AND MORE. I THK 'S SO IMPORTANT FOR THE STORI OF THE SPAC AND THE MEN WHO EQUENTED THEM ARE NOT LOST TO HISTORY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FOR MORE ON TRA CENTER, HEAD OVER TO THE SXSW {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• TRADE CENTER: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT 9/11 AND THE END OF GAY CISG DOWNTOWN NEW YORK
• [VIDEO] THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF THE WORLD TRA CENTER
• “TRA CENTER” EXPLOR THE TW TOWERS’ UNTOLD GAY HISTORY

THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF THE WORLD TRA CENTER

Courty of SXSWBaran’s new short film “Tra Center, ” which premiers at SXSW today, brought the filmmaker back to explore the buildg’s unrground history as a spot for gay and queer men to cise.

“Stop number one on a sex tour of the World Tra Center would be the men’s room on the lower level near the entrance to the PATH tras, ” Miller reunts the film, chroniclg his arrival to New York the 1970s, shortly after the morn gay liberatn movement kicked off. Bis an openg sequence, which his iend and narrator Billy Miller—the edor of the gay ze Straight to Hell—discs the malleabily of public and private sexual spac agast a few sends of perd footage (“back the 1970s, every public rtroom, seclud park, roadsi stop, was a potential or actual y room, ” Miller rellects), the film tak place the still new One World Tra Center, juxtaposg voiceover rellectns of the stori of men and their libido and glorly filthy adventur agast the sanized, heavily surveilled, mall-like atmosphere of the new buildg’s terrs.

NEW DOCUMENTARY UNVERS THE WORLD TRA CENTER'S SECRET CISG CULTURETHE SHORT PREMIER AT THIS WEEK'S SXSW FILM {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY CHRISTOPHER RUDOLPHMARCH 19, 2021/9:42 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:2878PX;WIDTH:4279PX;}PETER J. ECKEL/THE LIFE IMAG COLLECTNNEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 1976: GROUND VIEW LOOKG UP AT THE WORLD TRA CENTER TOWERS. (PHOTO BY PETER J. ECKEL/THE LIFE IMAG COLLECTN VIA GETTY IMAG/GETTY IMAG)BY CHRISTOPHER RUDOLPHMARCH 19, 2021 / 9:42 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"NEW DOCUMENTARY UNVERS THE WORLD TRA CENTER'S SECRET CISG CULTURE","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2021-03-19T13:42:49.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2021-03-19T13:42:49.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"CHRISTOPHER RUDOLPH","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IF YOU KNOW ANYTHG ABOUT NEW YORK CY'S QUEER HISTORY, THEN YOU HAVE PROBABLY HEARD OF THE PREVALENT GAY CISG THAT OCCURRED AROUND THE WT VILLAGE, THE CHRISTOPHER STREET PIER, AND THE RAMBLE CENTRAL PARK. BUT ONE PLACE THAT FEW KNOW EXISTED WAS THE CISG GROUNDS AND AROUND THE WORLD TRA CENTER PLEX LOWER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CIRC OF BOOKS PRODUCER ADAM BARAN IS SHG A LIGHT ON THAT SECRET CISG HISTORY THE NEW DOCUMENTARY SHORT TRA CENTER, MAKG S WORLD PREMIERE THIS WEEK AT SXSW.TRA {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I FIRST HEARD ABOUT THE CISG AREAS AT THE WORLD TRA CENTER OM MY IEND BILLY MILLER, THE EDOR OF THE LEGENDARY STRAIGHT-TO-HELL ZE, WHICH PIL TE SEX STORI OM GAY MEN," BARAN TELLS NEWNOWNEXT. "BILLY WROTE AN CREDIBLE ARTICLE ABOUT THE WTC'S CISG HISTORY FOR A BOOK LLED PETE MORT: RELLECTNS OF A QUEER PUBLIC (EDED BY JOSHUA LUB LEVY AND CARLOS MOTTA). I ED THIS ARTICLE AS THE BASIS FOR TRA CENTER AND RERD BILLY'S NARRATN LAST YEAR PRR TO THE PANMIC."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SHORT FEATUR FIRSTHAND ACUNTS OM GAY MEN WHO WENT CISG AREAS SUCH AS AN UNRGROUND STAIRWELL, AND EVEN A BATHROOM LOTED ONE OF THE TW {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WE SHOT THE FILM LATE FEBARY 2020, AND I WOUND UP FDG FOUR OTHER SUBJECTS WHO ALSO GAVE ME TTIMONIALS ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENC CISG AT THE WTC," BARAN NTU. "I WAS ALWAYS SO FASCATED THAT THERE WAS SENTIALLY A HISTORY OF A SECRET CISG CULTURE THAT NOBODY REALLY KNEW ABOUT, AND WANTED TO EXAME THE FACTORS BEHD THAT ERASURE AND ALSO CELEBRATE THE POWER OF PHYSIL SPAC FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE TO MEET AND FORM NNECTNS OF ALL KDS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BARAN SAYS THAT CISG AND CISG CULTURE PLAYS AN IMPORTANT PART GAY HISTORY, BUT "'S AN ASPECT THAT MANY GAY PEOPLE WOULD RATHER NOT DISCS FOR FEAR THAT RERC NEGATIVE STEREOTYP ABOUT GAY PEOPLE BEG UNNTROLLABLE SEXUAL MONSTERS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"IN REALY, FOR CENTURI GAY PEOPLE HAD TO LIVE UNRGROUND LIV, MEETG SECRET SPAC WHETHER FOR SOCIALIZG OR SEXUAL SATISFACTN, OR BOTH," HE EXPLAS. "A SECLUD BATHROOM, A REMOTE BEACH, A 42ND STREET PORN THEATER, OR AS THE SE OF THE WORLD TRA CENTER, A STAIRWELL THE PARKG GARAGE — THE SERVED AS SPAC WHERE GAY MEN OF DIFFERENT CLASS, RAC, AND EXPERIENC WERE ABLE TO TERACT WAYS THEY ULD NOT SO-LLED POLE SOCIETY. THE NNECTNS STRENGTHENED OUR MUNY AND ENABLED TO SURVIVE, FD LOVERS, IENDS, AND MORE. I THK 'S SO IMPORTANT FOR THE STORI OF THE SPAC AND THE MEN WHO EQUENTED THEM ARE NOT LOST TO HISTORY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FOR MORE ON TRA CENTER, HEAD OVER TO THE SXSW {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Now, the floors of One World Tra Center have men uniform statned across s immaculate cleang up of gayns, gay spac, and gay culture is faiar to lots of queer people, Baran clud: “We know the earlit queer movements our untry, om the queer liberatn movement to the pre-liberatn movement, that there’s this ongog tensn always between the forc of who are rpectable and want to say ‘if we jt show society that we’re good and that we n be good cizens, they will let ’, ” Baran began. ’ And the gay movement om the ‘60s on, that was kd of the spl. One voice the film discs Rudy Giuliani’s role crackg down on public cisg spac the early 1990s “at the height of the AIDS crisis”, sayg that “he systematilly raid and shut down gay bars wh back rooms, dirty movie theaters, and several bathho.

The film bumps up agast the var perds of time nearly surreal form, simultaneoly observg a time whencisg was a kd of gay norm and the current realy which public sex is both more difficult to engage and also to some gree nsired antiquated and spac of sire and performance, as “Tra Center” tells , were feral, steamy, gross, excg, and sensual their modifitn of public utily to a private stage for fantasy and momentary closens. Baran end our nversatn wh a lgh: “Horny gay people will not be stopped; horny queer people will not be stopped.

If you know anythg about New York Cy's queer history, then you have probably heard of the prevalent gay cisg that occurred around the Wt Village, the Christopher Street pier, and the Ramble Central Park. "I first heard about the cisg areas at the World Tra Center om my iend Billy Miller, the edor of the legendary Straight-to-Hell ze, which pil te sex stori om gay men, " Baran tells NewNowNext. "The short featur firsthand acunts om gay men who went cisg areas such as an unrground stairwell, and even a bathroom loted one of the Tw Towers.

TRADE CENTER: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT 9/11 AND THE END OF GAY CISG DOWNTOWN NEW YORK

"Baran says that cisg and cisg culture plays an important part gay history, but "'s an aspect that many gay people would rather not discs for fear that rerc negative stereotyp about gay people beg unntrollable sexual monsters.

""In realy, for centuri gay people had to live unrground liv, meetg secret spac whether for socializg or sexual satisfactn, or both, " he explas. "A seclud bathroom, a remote beach, a 42nd Street porn theater, or as the se of the World Tra Center, a stairwell the parkg garage — the served as spac where gay men of different class, rac, and experienc were able to teract ways they uld not so-lled pole society.

The voic of five gay men who cised for sex at the World Tra Center the 1980s and 1990s hnt the sanized, merce-driven landspe that is the newly rebuilt Freedom Tower mp. Genuely surprised Ben Shapiro didn't e this short film as an argument to blame the gays for the 9/11 tragedy.

[VIDEO] THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF THE WORLD TRA CENTER

Weav footage of the ntemporary World Tra Center wh d ttimonials om gay men who equented the WTC the 80s and 90s - the dirty, glory days of NYC - as a cisg spot; works as both a a document of the cy's rapid, and haphazard, gentrifitn and an elegiac time psule of margalized sexualy 's also dited to Samuel R. i always knew 9/11 was gay. An timate, movg documentary short about the WTC's legacy as a gay cisg hotspot.

“TRA CENTER” EXPLOR THE TW TOWERS’ UNTOLD GAY HISTORY

Adam Baran's documentary short Tra Center is a betiful, melancholy portra of what the World Tra Center meant to gay men pre-9/11 NYC. SXSW 2021 Shorts: Ranked #9 of 30 "Tra Center" is a fascatg short about the hidn gay cisg culture the World Tra Center the 80s and 90s.