Will Someone Save This Trans-Friendly Boat?
The S.S. Gay, a WWII era Air-to-Sea Rescue boat that’s been a houseboat, been a Fire Island Ferry and even has been a shipwreck, now spends its days as a radical artist and community space on Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal. The boat’s owners describe her as a “queer and trans-friendly space” and have converted her to sustainable technologies, including a wood-burning stove. Unfortunately, the S.S. Gay is sinking– an needs your help.
To raise funds for the boat, organizers are throwing a party on March 28th at Downtown Community Television (87 Lafayette Street) in Brooklyn. The party’s on a sliding scale of donation and while the mission of the S.S. Gay and Save the Gay may be one of the more amorphous causes we’ve come across, how can you say ‘No’ to a big gay hippie boat?
So it was used as a ferry to Point O Woods, a Fire Island community where all the houses are deeded by the community and no Jews, blacks or Catholics are allowed? Let it sink.
We’re ALL sinking! In case you haven’t turned on the news lately, this country is hurting financially and choices have to be made. I’m sorry, but I’m in the let the boat sink category.
Boats are awesome! Queer boats are double awesome. We may all be sinking, but I’m donating to the S.S. Gay because I don’t want to be responsible for a little less rad existing in this world.
I’m with Graham on this one. There are important not-letting-the-bastards-grind-you-down principles at play, here.