Matthew Leifhe’s “To Die Alive” is an arrtg portra of an endurg gay refuge.
Contents:
- THE VERY GAY HISTORY OF FIRE ISLAND
- ON FIRE ISLAND, NEW YORK'S ELE GAY GETAWAY, THE PARTYG PSED FOR BLACK LIV MATTER PROTTS
THE VERY GAY HISTORY OF FIRE ISLAND
How did one summer settlement Fire Island bee a 'safe haven' for gay men and lbians s before the uprisg at Stonewall Inn? * fire island new york gay history *
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.
ON FIRE ISLAND, NEW YORK'S ELE GAY GETAWAY, THE PARTYG PSED FOR BLACK LIV MATTER PROTTS
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. 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. Rothschild, the creator and host of the podst Hot Tak & Deep Div, channeled that obssn to an amb project lvg to this one-of-a-kd gay haven: a new podst doceri, Fdg Fire Island. The seri, which featur terviews wh Margaret Cho, Joel Kim Booster, Matt Rodgers, and many others, premiered earlier this month, and will ntue wh episos verg the island’s secret history, s ntemporary hedonistic atmosphere, and the thorny issu around who do and do not feel wele what Rothschild scrib as Fire Island’s “gay fantasia.