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<i>On the (Queer) Waterfront</i>
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&quot;Stevedores Bathing Under Brooklyn Bridge&quot; (1939) by Edward Casey. Courtesy of the Green-Wood Historic Fund.
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<i>On the (Queer) Waterfront</i>

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Starting in the mid-1800s, there were LGBTQ+ people living and working in Brooklyn's waterfront communities, including poet Walt Whitman, who lived near the historic Brooklyn...

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128 Pierrepont St. Brooklyn, NY, 11201

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