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. But though Central Park at night-any part of the park-is dangerous, the gay ghetto that is the Ramble is perhaps the section most fear-ridden. The west side of that 30-acre section of Central Park known as the Ramble had a reputation as a homosexual meeting ground long before Cole teased his friends at private parties with this suggestive lyric. Cole Porter’s “A Picture of Me Without You,” 1935. Picture Central Park-without a sailor, Picture Mister Lord, minus Mister Taylor.
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