Every year, gay men fan out for summer fun. But the pool at New Hope’s the Raven remas the statn for “daddi” and the young men they admire.
Contents:
- LEIL "JR" GAY HAS PASSED AWAY
- GARY SPAETH VS LEIL "JR" GAY
- LEIL "JR" GAY HAS PASSED AWAY
- GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER AND SWIMMER BOYIEND DANCE NIGHT AWAY AT PROM
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
- POOL BOYS: THE SUMMER GAY SCENE AT THE RAVEN POOL NEW HOPE
- ONCE A LLEGE CLUB GYMNAST, GAY ACH STRS BEG CLIVE AS CROSSF TRAER
LEIL "JR" GAY HAS PASSED AWAY
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Related: Was notor homophobe Jerry Falwell Jr. And the two openly gay St. Ba, 19, and Sigmund, 18, are the only openly gay uple at John Burroughs School, but their beg at the dance was old news to the stunts there.
GARY SPAETH VS LEIL "JR" GAY
“We have been the only openly gay uple at Burroughs sce I’ve been here, but isn’t a problem at all at our school. But the stunts, faculty and admistratn at Burroughs have been ultra-supportive of Ba, who drew a prott om the Wtboro Baptist Church homophob after his g out as a high school football star beme natnal news.
LEIL "JR" GAY HAS PASSED AWAY
Today, as the Los Angel Dodgers prepare to play the World Seri agast the Tampa Bay Rays, -founr Jim Buzski remds that the Dodgers anchise is a part of LGBTQ sports history as havg the only two MLB players who ever were public about beg gay. Dodgers have had Major League Baseball’s only 2 openly gay players. In the history of Major League Baseball, there have been only two players who have e out as gay: Glenn Burke and Billy Bean.
Burke, while never publicly out wh the media while playg, did nothg to hi the fact to his teammat that he was gay. Not a “Hey world, I’m gay” way, but the sense that his teammat knew as did the management of the Los Angel Dodgers, Burke’s first team. ” A memorable moment “Out” occurs when is relled that the Dodgers — tryg to stifle mors that a popular player was gay — offered Burke $75, 000 to get married.
The Dodgers and their manager, Tom Lasorda, prented a versn of themselv as a clean-cut, All-Amerin team and a flamboyantly gay player uld not be tolerated, pecially one who hung out wh Lasorda’s gay son. (“Spunky’), himself a gay man and the son of the team’s manager, Tommy Lasorda. “Spunky” Lasorda later died of AIDS and his father shamefully never acknowledged that his son was gay.
GAY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYER AND SWIMMER BOYIEND DANCE NIGHT AWAY AT PROM
“My son wasn’t gay. His beg gay was known and players were reluctant to shower wh him. A former Burke teammate Clll Washgton rells that A’s Manager Billy Mart was openly homophobic:.
Burke went on to settle San Francis and was a fixture on the gay scene there, even playg the Gay Gam softball. While baseball is still wag for s first openly gay active MLB player, Bean’s elevatn to a posn of thory the missner’s office is a sign that thgs have changed sce the days when Glenn Burke was lled a faggot by his manager.
Every year, gay men fan out farther and wir for summer fun. Wele to the Pool at the you don’t know the Pool, ’s probably bee you’re not gay, boozy or particularly randy, or preferably all three.
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: THE ONLY MLB TEAM WH PLAYERS WHO HAVE E OUT AS GAY
But ’s been a summertime staple for gay men om Philly, New York, New Jersey and parts of what is monly lled “Pennsyltucky” for s — New Hope’s crown jewel when to summer gay tourism. When a gay man texts “I’m gog to the pool, ” ’s no mystery which one — ’s not his pool, or a pool, but the Pool.
But if you’re gay and not sippg mojos at the Chelsea Atlantic Cy or whiffg poppers Rehoboth, you’re at the Pool — part of a bed gay bar/motel operatn — baskg s glisteng bawds. 3, which is everyone else — a loose llectn of sociable gays summoned to the water as if by gravatnal pull, neon pool noodl potg skyward. It’s like circle time at gay summer, gays are assiatg at a faster pace than ever before.
POOL BOYS: THE SUMMER GAY SCENE AT THE RAVEN POOL NEW HOPE
When a gay uple mov to the hoe next door, the neighborhood … boys will be boys, and this will never change: At certa tim, the tribe wants to vort s own playpen. Which brgs back to the Pool, which is ground zero for heat-stricken gay men Philalphia and surroundg unti who lack accs to a beach hoe. It has always applied to gay men.
The abbreviated story of how the Bucks County burg beme a sort of gay-and-gltered Plymouth Rock go somethg like this: First me the nvas artists the 1930s and ’40s; soon after, retail shops pched their tents to piggyback off the scene’s growg (and marketable) diversy. Meanwhile, a flourishg theater scene emerged, fed by Bucks County Playhoe darlgs like Angela Lansbury, Grace Kelly and Liza Mnelli (as ins, gay, gayer and gayt). “From there, people began buyg summer hom, and wh that me the muny om New York and Philly, who found their way to New Hope, ” says Daniel Brooks, founr of the gay-tourism anizatn New Hope Celebrat.
ONCE A LLEGE CLUB GYMNAST, GAY ACH STRS BEG CLIVE AS CROSSF TRAER
” By the 1980s, thanks to the so-lled “Goln Triangle” of gay nightclubs — the Raven, the Cartwheel and the Prelu — New Hope had tablished self as a “Gayborhood” well before the term was ed for 13th and Loct. ” Beyond providg juicy burgers (a scene that fi crly — gay men eatg rbs? “It’s a summer rual, ” says Philly gay-event producer Josh Schonewolf, who go every season.
Here, I meet 58-year-old Dan Schaffer, who’s bt explaed as a gay Rolox wh a pulse — the go-to guy if you want to know someone, or jt want the latt dish on who’s dog what (and to whom).
Prerved, spots like the Pool are an endangered speci; gay mecs like New Hope and Key Wt are cle (or, perhaps more accurately, “gog straight”).