Depending where you are in East Coast, you should contact YCC (Yankee Cruising Club) in Boston, or KSA, Knickerboker Sailing Association in NY. Both clubs will welcome you. No want to own a boat, captains are always looking for crew for afternoon sails or weeekends. This will aid you gain exposure, etc. Google them and get in touch. Looking forward to meet you both!
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Re: Gay Cruising Couple Experiences?
My husband and I face a similar situation because we are an interracial couple and I am African American. We sail the East Coast of the US. Homophobia and anti-blackness are real, as are microaggressions and physical violence. We encounter microaggression
A meeting place, a hangout, a refuge. An industrial wasteland, a locale for sex, a beach, a dance floor, an art gallery, a home. A place of thrills, of danger, of comfort, of joy. Each of these varying descriptors and functions—alongside many others depending on who you ask—could at one point be attributed to a singular area in New York City: Greenwich Village’s waterfront, also known as the Christopher Street Pier.
Once a working part of Novel York City's industrial waterfront, the Christopher Street Pier—a group of piers typically comprised of the piers along Manhattan’s West Side numbered 42, 45, 46 and 51, has distant served as a vibrant social gathering site for the LGBTQ community, particularly used as a place for nude sunbathing, cruising and sexual intercourse. Now known as the Hudson River Park on the Hudson River waterfront of Manhattan's Greenwich Village, the Pier has over the decades also served as living quarters for homosexual homeless youth, a casual hangout and meeting see for LGBTQ groups of friends, and a blank canvas for many notable queer artists to make s
South Beach, Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk &#; Parking Lots
History
In the s, the beaches of South Beach and Midland Beach on the eastern shore of Staten Island became a public park with a new mile boardwalk named for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In the late s and early s, in conjunction with the construction of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and Staten Island Expressway, the beach and boardwalk were redeveloped with new parking lots.
Within a few years, the eastern shore beaches, boardwalk, and parking lots, particularly in South Beach and Ocean Breeze, became popular public social gathering places and cruising areas for the LGBT group. According to their minutes, the New York Chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis gathered there for a beach day during the summer of In the soon s, the future writer Michelangelo Signorile came out in South Beach where he would meet other adolescent boys under the boardwalk for “hours and hours” of “steamy sex.” Staten Islander James Hanlon, who was a student at Staten Island Group College during the ea
Riis Park Beach
History
Located on a mile-long section of Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, Jacob Riis Park was named after the turn-of-theth-century social reformer and photojournalist. Historically, New York Town beaches have been popular general social gathering places for the LGBT community where they claimed certain sections as their own.
In the s the beach was redesigned under the direction of New York City Parks Commissioner Robert Moses. When the park reopened in , Moses hoped that it would be a more democratic version of Jones Beach due to its straightforward accessibility by public transportation and cars. By the s the most eastern end of the beach had become a documented well-known destination for mostly ivory gay men to sunbathe and cruise. Lesbian women also claimed a nearby area of the beach by the s. By the s, this area became increasingly popular with a diverse LGBT presence including African American and Latino/a men and women.
During the s this area of the beach became clothing optional and was affectionately referred to as “Screech Beach” due to the