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Riis Park – August 17, 2024

August 23, 2024 – 10:29 am

At the beach Yesterday Sea Waves Wind Warm Sand Shifts Beneath my feet

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July 20 1977 – Journal – Riis

July 21, 2024 – 7:47 pm

A hot day in the city. I finished serving lunch at the executive dining room on Wall Street a little past 1pm and caught the A train to the Rockaway Beach after which a bus transported me to Riis Park, the gay nude beach. Hundreds of queers and lesbian sunbathed naked. Spread legs showing cocks […]

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The Neponsit Homes Eternal

October 6, 2023 – 10:46 am

The Neposit Homes overlooked Riis Park Beach. Originally constructed as TB wards and later serving as mental wards and finally converted to a home for local seniors. I recalled sunning naked beneath those windows in 1978 with Sharon Mitchell after a long night into the dawn. The old ladies shouting kind words to us in […]

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Screech Beach

September 6, 2014 – 8:15 pm

Back in the 70s this building housed the insane. The wards overlooked the nude beach at Riis Park. I loved lying on the sand and hearing them yell at naked people on Screech Beach. All gone now. The mad and the naked on Screech Beach.

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