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Paul Kendall, a spokesman for LeHiHo, a gay organization, said the series of arrests casts a bad light on the entire homosexual community, the majority of which he said live ordinary lives. "I saw a guy who walked with a cane and was probably 90 years old run about 200 yards, chasing after a car" in search of a sex partner. "It makes me kind of sick to see this, especially because so many kids walk through there," Vaccarro said. He said he sees dozens of men go in and out of the woods and bathrooms, two at a time, three or four times in an afternoon. Vaccarro said he sees the same people at Jordan Park West every day. There are a lot of people being sexually harassed, and something should be done." It's a shame because this is a beautiful park, but it's getting that it's not safe. "The cops came in and the cars in the back took off," Vaccarro said. The next afternoon, six cars sat unattended while the owners filed two by two, in broad daylight, into the surrounding woods.
13 after he allegedly grabbed the groin of an undercover officer. Larry Heintzleman said the flow of cars to the back parking lot of Jordan Park West has slowed since the arrests, but the activity has not stopped.Īllentown police arrested Robert Hartzell, 51, of Sebastian, Fla., on Aug. Police described the northwest entrance to Lehigh Parkway as a lunch- and dinner-hour cruising strip where men meet, then disappear together into the verdant forest.Īt the restrooms in Cedar Beach Park and in Little Lehigh Park near the fish hatchery, men sit in cars for hours, waiting for an unknown partner with whom to have sex in the public bathrooms, police said.Ĭombs said Allentown police are stepping up measures to control homosexual activity in the park because of numerous complaints from neighbors, pedestrians, fishermen and others who use the parks.Ĭombs said the favorite spots for gay sexual rendezvous move from time to time, and in recent weeks, the Jordan Park area was becoming substantially more popular.