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Contents:
- SWEET ESPE: PHOTOGRAPHS OF FIRE ISLAND’S CHERRY GROVE SHOW ITS HISTORY AS A GAY SANCTUARY
- EVERYTHG WE KNOW ABOUT FIRE ISLAND, A NEW GAY PRI AND PREJUDICE ADAPTATN
SWEET ESPE: PHOTOGRAPHS OF FIRE ISLAND’S CHERRY GROVE SHOW ITS HISTORY AS A GAY SANCTUARY
” Rogers echoed those sentiments, quippg: “I’m out there beg a full gay man on that beach, and that wh s maladi and succs. “The tth is [the village of] the P was very closeted and origally envisned as a straight muny, ” she ’d also like her podst to help dismantle the stereotype of Fire Island beg a haven strictly for whe cisgenr gay men, notg: “The tth is, is filled wh women and trans folks, particularly [the village of] Cherry Grove.
Are played out the ty, remote gay muni as well, ” Rothschild said. New York’s Fire Island, often referred to as Ameri’s first gay and lbian town, has been a summer statn for the LGBTQ+ muny sce at least the 1940s.
Still today, an enormo rabow flag ntu to wele visors at the ferry docks, proudly proclaimg the area's inty as a gay island is currently home to 17 different small beach towns—cludg Ocean Beach, Fire Island P, and Cherry Grove—and the latter is one of the island’s most popular gay getaways. Tled Safe/Haven, a new showse om Manhattan’s New York Historil Society explor gay life Cherry Grove durg the 1950s and beyond—dog so through a llectn of 70 enlarged photographs, on view until October 11th. Acrdg to the mm, many gay men and women traveled to Cherry Grove well before the Stonewall era.
EVERYTHG WE KNOW ABOUT FIRE ISLAND, A NEW GAY PRI AND PREJUDICE ADAPTATN
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