Park cruising gay

Just remember to clean up after yourself — nobody likes a dirty park. It should be no surprise that this massive phallus attracted a cruisy crowd. Not long ago, queer people had vanishingly few options for meeting up, finding romance and cruising pleasures of the flesh.

Established as a cruising spot in the s due to its proximity to other queer-friendly venues, Pershing Square, located in Downtown Los Angeles, is today undeniably ugly. The Ramble is a acre section of New York City’s Central Park (found in the park’s lower half, around 79th Street) that was one of the city’s — if not the — most popular gay cruising spots for decades.

This article also features reporting by Stephan Horbelt. John Rechy put Griffith Park on the cultural map as a cruising hotspot after his novel “Numbers” detailed a chance encounter at the famous sprawling enclave between Los Feliz and the Santa Monica Mountains.

There were even Meat Rack arrests gay recently aswhen men were arrested for getting it on in the cruises. Depending on when you visit Provincetown, you may even encounter the occasional performance art gig. The park was one of L.A.’s most notorious spots for men to go and cruise for sex.

But for decades Pershing Square had wooded areas that facilitated private rendezvous among men. The cops were hell-bent on exposing their arrestees as gay men, feeding the press their names and even where they worked. Just watch where you step so as not to trip over anyone on their knees.

The Meat Rack is a wooded haven for queer sex dating all the way back to the s, when the world was intent on arresting, beating and murdering us. As always, authorities were determined to push queer people out of public life, and an eventual redesign discouraged foot-traffic, not just in terms of cruising but for neighbors as well.

Hey, nobody ever claimed Los Angeles was a masterpiece of civic infrastructure. Rechy himself had been arrested in Griffith Park and faced a five-year prison sentence for. In recent years, environmental cleanup has meant more activity in the area, as well as an influx of visitors disinterested in romance.

This article was originally published on April 20, Griffith Park, Los Angeles – Known for its iconic Hollywood sign, Griffith Park has also long been a cruising spot, especially during the midth century. Even today, Fire Island visitors are able to park advantage of this most infamous of gay cruising spots.

But as popular as The Ramble was among gay men for some parks, it also grew to be increasingly dangerous at night, as muggings and beatings became common. But once the moon is shining on the bay, out come the guys looking to get frisky.

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Los Angeles, with its reputation as a city of glitz, also had a shadow world of hidden, underground gay life, and this park, with its secluded trails, became a natural cruising area. Anonymity was key, and at night lights of any kind were banned.

Baker Beach is your best bet for admiring the sun, sand and sea air, plus naked bodies on this clothing-optional stretch of land not far from gay Golden Gate Bridge. Check the parking lot nearby and you might see more than the usual number of lone men waiting in their cars; and the trails around the Duwamish lead in and out of cover in a way that provides plenty of privacy.

Instead the piers along the Manhattan side of the Hudson River offered plenty of gay pyramid. On a good night, still today, a drunken stumble down to The Dick Dock could put you face-to-face with dozens of anonymous guys looking to get their rocks off.

By it was officially a three-level underground parking garage. Traditionally men would sit in parked cars along Vaseline Alley and wait for the right match to stumble along.