Photos of New York's Beloved Inclive Gay Beach, Jab Riis Park That Feel Like Home

Contents:

• DIVERSE GAY BEACH - ROCKAWAY BEACH
• 10 BT GAY BEACH THE WORLD
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• REHOBOTH’S GALLERY 50 TO HOST SHOWS BY TWO GAY ARTISTS

DIVERSE GAY BEACH - ROCKAWAY BEACH

Historilly, has been the most popular gay beach New York Cy. "Gay Beach" at Riis Park, 1960. Acrdg to Rodwell, gay men were nstantly harassed and given catns by police over alleged vlatns of the size of their bathg sus (Rodwell was later arrted for objectg to this).

Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) voter registratn, 1971.

10 BT GAY BEACH THE WORLD

Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) softball team, wh gay rights lear Barbara Gtgs kneelg at right, at Riis Beach, early 1970s. By the 1940s the most eastern end of the beach had bee a documented well-known statn for mostly whe gay men to sunbathe and cise.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

Durg the 1960s this area of the beach beme clothg optnal and was affectnately referred to as “Screech Beach” due to the gay prence. Acrdg to future gay rights lear and bookshop owner Craig Rodwell, gay men were nstantly harassed and given catns by police over alleged vlatns of the size of their bathg sus. One of the bt Gay Rivieras the world…so crowd, nus go unnoticed.

As a se of activism, the beach was the lotn of a 1971 voter registratn drive led by the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), one of the first gay rights groups to form after the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg.

REHOBOTH’S GALLERY 50 TO HOST SHOWS BY TWO GAY ARTISTS

Though, at tim, beachgoers have alt wh homophobia here over the years, the area still matas s queer inty as one of New York Cy’s popular and diverse LGBT public spac.

Gee Chncey, Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of a Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (New York: Basic Books, 1994).