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Back in the late 70s and early 80s, the riverside western edge of Manhattan was far less developed than today. Infamously, many gay men went to the abandoned piers near Christopher Street looking for sex, or as a place to display out and sunbathe during the summer months. Fences around the piers kept most people out. However, the flimsy barricades were pretty easy to procure around. Before Grindr, before Scruff, even before AIDS, the cruising spots like the piers were where lgbtq+ men went to rest and get off.
Photographer Stanley Stellar captured many photos during this time, and those were shown at NYC&#;s Kapp Kapp Gallery this past weekend. Stellar’s photos capture men relaxing, sunbathing naked, kissing, or getting more intimate with one another inside the piers, which offered an abundance of abandoned rooms. The piers were also a place where road artists could practice their art. Graffiti by the late Keith Haring, who died from HIV-related illness in can be seen in the background of some of these shots.
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These days lots of gay guys are using Grindr for hooking up. But we didn&#;t always have sex available at our fingertips. For centuries (or longer!) gay and bi guys have launch ways to connect with each other, even when doing so was illegal. Most of us don&#;t come from queer families and so we don&#;t learn our LGBTQ history at home. So, I set out to unearth the ways that queer and bisexual guys contain met each other for friendship and sex. Here&#;s a brief history of gay cruising
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For the past 11 years, up until this past January, I lived in New York City. It&#;s one of the centers of same-sex attracted life in the Merged States. It&#;s a port city and after the sailors returned home from World War II, many of the guys who had found connections, if you know what I mea
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Why so many of us shudder when we perceive, or read, the synonyms "queer" being bandied about the way some of you insist upon doing. "Reclaimed," my ass!
[quote]“They jumped me, three kids,” he told me. “Twenty, twenty-five, maybe, not older. I couldn’t tell, they jumped me as I was just stepping out on the Bridle Path. I offered money. Just don’t hurt me, I said. ‘Man, we don’t yearn your money, you faggot,’ they said. ‘It’s probably just as queer as you are.’ Then they started kicking me. I passed out for a minute. When I came to, they were prancing arm in arm down the road, singing: ‘We killed a faggot, we killed a faggot.’ They were laughing.” [quote] “They knew exactly what they were looking for—’queers,’ ” says sex researcher Dr. John Money of those responsible for the Ramble gay bashing.
[quote] “I had a patient with a history of queer baiting.
[quote] The very fact that our laws make homosexuality a crime validates the idea that ‘queers’ are animals.
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