"We would like to be assured that we will continue to have this space, which has always been our space, where people from the queer community always end up," said Victoria Cruz, 76, who has been coming to the beach since the 1960s. Novels by LGBTQ authors including Audre Lorde and Joan Nestle helped to turn the area into a fabled haven. Colombia, also known as Oswaldo Gomez, who is believed to have drowned nearby in 2018.
The LGBTQ community has long embraced that section of Jacob Riis Park, sunbathing nude and holding gatherings such as memorials for Ms.
The city wants to create a park on the site, wiping out the decrepit structure facing a clothing-optional beach in the borough of Queens. A shrine on the chain-link fence memorializes a queer icon found dead off the waters nearby. Graffiti on the outer walls declare "QUEER TRANS POWER" and "KNOW YOUR POWER." Air conditioning units rust in the shattered windows of Neponsit Beach Hospital, once also a nursing home, but empty since 1998. NEW YORK, Oct 12 - LGBTQ beachgoers are wrestling with New York City's plan to tear down a long-abandoned tuberculosis hospital that has served as a landmark for the community.
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