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DIVERSE GAY BEACH - ROCKAWAY BEACH
Photos of New York's Beloved Inclive Gay Beach, Jab Riis Park That Feel Like Home * gay beach rockaway *
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.
NEW YORK GAY BEACH
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" Later 1974, the Tim noted that "Bay 1 at Riis for some years been a gatherg place of homosexuals. "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.