How did one summer settlement Fire Island bee a 'safe haven' for gay men and lbians s before the uprisg at Stonewall Inn?
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GAY FIRE ISLAND
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Fire Island is referenced a lot popular culture, for example the Fire Island TV seri and a new gay Pri and Prejudice adaptatn set on Fire Island. How did one particular summer settlement on Fire Island bee a ‘safe haven’ for gay men and lbians almost nety years ago, s before the uprisg at Stonewall Inn?
It is the se of one of the olst gay and lbian muni the Uned Stat, suated wh two neighborg hamlets — Cherry Grove and the Fire Island P. Durg the 1930s actors, wrers and craftspeople om the New York theatril world began headg to Cherry Grove, s remote and stic quali allowg for gay and lbians to exprs themselv eely — far away om a world that rejected and persecuted them.
THE VERY GAY HISTORY OF FIRE ISLAND
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And they are joed by Parker Sargent, a documentary filmmaker and one of the curators of Safe Haven: Gay Life 1950s Cherry Grove, a new exhibn at the New-York Historil Society, highlightg photography om the llectn of the Cherry Grove Archiv Collectn. Listen Now: The Very Gay History of Fire Island. Go see the show Safe/Haven: Gay Life 1950s Cherry Grove at the New-York Historil Society.
From Osr Wil’s vis to the island 1882, to the steady velopment of Cherry Grove as “Ameri's First Gay and Lbian Town, ” Fire Island has long been a home and haven to LGBTQ visors and rints alike.
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Long before the Stonewall Rts set the movement for Gay Liberatn to motn, Fire Island provid an important enclave to rints and visors at a time when almost everythg about livg openly as a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer (LGBTQ) person was illegal the Uned Stat.