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Rendezvous in the Ramble 4 Comments Add Yours By Doug Ireland

From the July 24, 1978 issue of Fresh York Magazine.

Picture Central Park—without a sailor, Picture Mister Lord, minus Mister Taylor. —Cole Porter's "A Picture of Me Without You," 1935.

The west side of that 30-acre section of Central Park known as the Ramble had a reputation as a lgbtq+ meeting ground long before Cole teased his friends at private parties with this suggestive lyric. But though Central Park at night—any part of the park—is dangerous, the same-sex attracted ghetto that is the Ramble is perhaps the section most fear-ridden. Gangs of toughs—teenagers and the macho middle-aged, usually drunk, occasionally including a couple of off-duty cops—roam the Ramble at night, engaging in an old American pastime: fag bashing.

You don't have to be homosexual. You don't have to be exposing yourself. You don't have to be doing anything except walking through the tangled darkness to be abused, shoved, threatened at knifepoint, kicked, and beaten.

Why so many of us shudder when we overhear, or read, the pos "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.

• Crowd:Thugs, freaks, wood smokin, blacks, latin and obsessive white guys.
• Directions:enter from the East side at 72. Amble westward into the park and follow the paved paths in a North West direction almost a 45 degree angle from 72 until you detect the Boathouse. The behavior starts just behind the Boathouse and spreads north and west from there. Go in the daylight to get use to the area.
  Cross street: Between 72nd and 77th avenue
• Hours:Cops close it at 1 am.
  Best times: Dusk till 1. Many stay way after 1 just gotta watch for the cops.
  Dates open: Cops close it at 1 am.
• Cruising Info/ Tips:You can mostly always spor a cop ride coming into the area.
  Cruisiest Spots: All throughout the rambles.
• Nudity / Policy:Yes / A few naked ones roam around.
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  Central Park at 103rd St

  Crowd: all types. mostly hustlers

  Neighbourhood: Central Park West

  Who's Coming

  all types. mostly hustlers

  Lots of dense space to earn raunchy. the general seating area next to the running tack late at night is a nice pick up spot. lots of dense woods to hide in.
  Cross street: 103

  • Crowd:all types. mostly hustlers
  • Directions:Lots of dense space to become raunchy. the general seating area next to the running tack late at night is a great pick up spot. lots of dense woods to hide in.
    Cross street: 103
  • Hours:8 p.m to 4 a.m
    Best times: mid night
    Dates open: 24/7
  • Cruising Info/ Tips:just chat. eventualy you get what your looking for
    Cruisiest Spots: jogging circle
  • Nudity / Policy:only in the woods
  • Wheelchair Accessible:No
  • Warnings:security
    Warnings: driven by park rangers. got away with in the woods but not without being chased out.

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