Before Stonewall, Cherry Grove: How a Fire Island beach town beme a gay 'safe haven'

Contents:

• FIRE ISLAND GAY BEACH
• BEFORE STONEWALL, CHERRY GROVE: HOW A BEACH TOWN BEME A GAY 'SAFE HAVEN'
• GAY FIRE ISLAND

FIRE ISLAND GAY BEACH

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BEFORE STONEWALL, CHERRY GROVE: HOW A BEACH TOWN BEME A GAY 'SAFE HAVEN'

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It's a b too early to h the bars and the sun is out: get your booty down to the gay beach. A few away, was said to be a welg muny of gay people. Hartmann walked down, and what she saw is on display at a new exhib at the New-York Historil Society, as well as chronicled the 1993 book “Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years Ameri's First Gay and Lbian Town” by Esther Newton.

GAY FIRE ISLAND

Hartmann, now 90, was terviewed for the exhib, “Safe/Haven: Gay Life 1950s Cherry Grove, ” which opens Friday at the New-York Historil Society, on Manhattan's Upper Wt Si.

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