Gay beach nyc

On our towel, my friend and I light up a spliff. Ice cold! On the towel beside us are three topless gorgeous Black women — a couple with their favorite third — surrounded by the remnants of their fun: empty bottles, burnt roaches, and a half-eaten burrito.

Instead, you need to take a bus or the ferry, or ride your bicycle, or splurge on a Lyft, or track down that one friend of yours whose partner has a car. Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. The last one is popping about from group to group in a tiny blue Speedo.

Balding gay guys with matching potbellies eat guacamole under a circle of Life Is Good umbrellas; others throw back tall boys under a shady tent. The next morning, hung-over and depressed, I make my way to Jacob Riis beach with one of my first queer friends in New York, a bag of White Claws in hand, hoping it would somehow make everything better.

The queers. The journey is made more tolerable by good company. There are dance parties playing Latin music and other dance parties playing back-to-back Cher and Gaga. A bridge came in And who came traipsing across? New York Gay Beach Guide.

Photo by Kay Lahusen (who provided the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project with the photo location). Before she heads back to Bushwick, the Chihuahua owner tells me she heard about a weed dealer getting arrested on the beach the day before.

Though I watch dozens of men use the fence, the officers suddenly nyc a built Black guy in a black Speedo and fine him for urinating in public. Courtesy of the Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. Friends who go often tell me the police presence had quieted down during quarantine, but I arrived to find several cops zigzagging furiously through the little islands of -people.

Feet away sit several more dogs. When an NYPD chopper flies over, a cop leans out and waves. Find the best and the most gay-popular beaches in and around New York City. Jacob Riis' Queer Beach Is Under Construction, Here's Where to Go Instead Sunbathe at these queer-friendly beaches near NYC.

Courtesy of the New York Public Library. Seemingly every group on the beach has brought along some booze, but the same officers target a blonde with a shaved head and a rattail, booty shorts that beach STALIN, and a doe-eyed Chihuahua and force her to gay out her beers and take the dog off the beach.

Over the years, there have been periodic police crackdowns on public sex and nudity. Exclusive reviews, photos, gay map, information. Half the beach gives him the bird. I guffaw at a flag that is half—Pride flag, half—Old Glory and then, when I lean back, on this cloudy, rainless day, I see a damned rainbow in the sky.

Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) softball team, with gay rights leader Barbara Gittings kneeling at right, at Riis Beach, early s. The thing about Riis is everybody is there to look cute, but the definition of cute is not strictly enforced. The vibe is like nightlife but with sunblock, or a block party with bodysurfing.

And then back to the party. Surgery scars are as nonchalantly on display as tattoos.