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Pri month may have jt passed, but we suggt checkg out the famo Jab Riis Park Beach—the gayt shorele town. Origally a place where whe gay men typilly gathered, tchg some rays and cise, Riis has sce weled a more diverse range of beachgoers. Back 1971, the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), one of the first gay rights groups to form after the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg Greenwich Village, anized a voter registratn drive.

Though gay beach span the globe, there’s somethg distct about Riis—a place wh lks to activism and a ep history of queer culture. It's known today by lols as a gay beach, an affirmg space for queer and trans bodi to be publicly visible, but few know s history as such, which dat back nearly a beach was named for the Progrsive-era photojournalist Jab Riis 1914. A 1963 New York Tim feature dubs Jab Riis Park among the summer vatn spots "the New York homosexual n fd" that are "equented by his kd.

" Later 1974, the Tim noted that "Bay 1 at Riis for some years been a gatherg place of homosexuals.

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"We don't thk of queerns as havg such a long lifpan, but this has been a gay beach for longer than most people live, " he ntu. Through the s, s eastern sectn, near the borr of the cy’s and the NPS’s property and ont of the abandoned Nepons Health Care Center at 149th Street, has functned as a gay beach enclave, and still do today. Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said.

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

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