Dancing, smoking, and playing all summer long at New York’s queerest seashore
From left: Emilio Vides-Curnen, Gobi-Kla Vonan, Jonathan Chay, Brandon Leo Beasley, Rob Dozier, Jay-Michael Wilson, and Justin Duckworth, Brooklyn. Photo: Wayne Lawrence I’d lost my phone. To be more specific, I drank too much tequila, went to a party I didn’t like, drank more tequila, and, somewhere between an Uber and the front steps of my apartment, lost my new iPhone.
The vibe is like nightlife but with sunblock, or a block party with bodysurfing. Vendors sell weed and rum punch , and before I can find a vacant spot to lie down, I notice several people I know from going out and hooking up: a boy I want to sleep with, a boy I almost slept with, and another boy I definitely slept with a few too many times. The last one is popping about from group to group in a tiny blue Speedo. Later, I remember his Grindr bio is “As seen on Riis Beach.
Probably someone would say that every summer is the summer of Riis, but for those of us without the wherewithal to pay for a share on Fire Island, or much desire to consort with the kind of people who can, or who have been working from home in a locked-down city, it’s been more of a lifeline than ever these past couple of years — probably busier, more diverse, and sexier than at any time in its history. It’s become the center of its own world.
And who came traipsing across? The queers. According to the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, it soon became a cruising spot. By 1963, the New York Times was recognizing Riis as a place “the New York homosexual” could find friends of “his kind,” and a local guidebook was calling it “one of the best Gay Rivieras in the world … so crowded, nudes go unnoticed.
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