"Safe/Haven: Gay Life 1950s Cherry Grove" is an timate look at one of the first gay beach towns the U.S. Fire Island’s remote hamlet of Cherry Grov
Contents:
- BEFORE STONEWALL, CHERRY GROVE: HOW A BEACH TOWN BEME A GAY 'SAFE HAVEN'
- SAFE/HAVEN: GAY LIFE 1950S CHERRY GROVE
- "SAFE/HAVEN: GAY LIFE 1950S CHERRY GROVE"
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS CHERRY GROVE BEACH
- SUN, SAND, AND SK: FIRE ISLAND’S GAY HAVEN THE NETEEN-SEVENTI
- SWEET ESPE: PHOTOGRAPHS OF FIRE ISLAND’S CHERRY GROVE SHOW ITS HISTORY AS A GAY SANCTUARY
BEFORE STONEWALL, CHERRY GROVE: HOW A BEACH TOWN BEME A GAY 'SAFE HAVEN'
A 2021 exhibn om the New-York Historil Society took an timate look at one of the first gay beach towns the Uned Stat. * cherry grove 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.
SAFE/HAVEN: GAY LIFE 1950S CHERRY GROVE
Wele to Cherry Grove! In the years before the Stonewall Uprisg, this seclud beach enclave on Fire Island was a rpe for gay men and women. Explore this fascatg and fotten history wh nearly 70 photographs om the 1950s, urty of the Cherry Grove Archiv Collectn. * cherry grove gay beach *
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.
"SAFE/HAVEN: GAY LIFE 1950S CHERRY GROVE"
And I’m gay. Hot Hoe, Grove Archiv CollectnCherry Grove was one of the first gay beach towns the Uned Stat, jog a handful of LGBTQ vatn spots and rorts that beme popular the pre-Stonewall era, along wh plac like Provcetown, Massachetts, and Sgatuck-Douglas, Michigan.
In Cherry Grove, gay rints were able to form a muny, have a voice how thgs were n and be out.
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS CHERRY GROVE BEACH
Cherry Grove Archiv CollectnCherry Grove was different om the cy, where the gay bars were n by the mob, acrdg to Sargent, who scribed the urban waterg hol as “dark and seedy clubs” where “you always had to be reful that the lights would e on, ” signalg a police raid.
SUN, SAND, AND SK: FIRE ISLAND’S GAY HAVEN THE NETEEN-SEVENTI
” Cherry Grove ntued to evolve after the 1950s, movg om a sanctuary for mostly whe and affluent gay men and women to a more clive place wh the advent of the 1960s, as the civil rights movement gaed tractn and more mercial real tate the area led to affordable hog optns for greater swaths of the muny. "Cherry Grove Archiv CollectnPart of the missn behd “Safe/Haven: Gay Life 1950s Cherry Grove” is to create an archive where there has been none. “It's gettg that material out there for people to see and to rewre our history a way that has been very blank bee we tend to thk that gay life started at Stonewall.
… People have a look at gay history before Stonewall.
SWEET ESPE: PHOTOGRAPHS OF FIRE ISLAND’S CHERRY GROVE SHOW ITS HISTORY AS A GAY SANCTUARY
” Today, Cherry Grove remas a beloved summer statn for LGBTQ beachgoers, particularly lbians, as has the adjog muny of the Fire Island P, which has tradnally tered to gay men. Photo cred: Hot Hoe, 1958Cherry Grove Archiv Collectn, Gift of Harold SeeleyIn the summer of 2021, the New-York Historil Society prented "Safe/Haven: Gay Life 1950s Cherry Grove, " an timate look at one of the first gay beach towns the Uned Stat. The outdoor exhibn explored mid-20th-century gay life Fire Island's remote hamlet of Cherry Grove, loted on the barrier island south of Long Island, through some 70 enlarged photographs and addnal ephemera om the holdgs of the Cherry Grove Archiv Collectn--which works to llect and archive the muny's rich and lorful history.