How did one summer settlement Fire Island bee a 'safe haven' for gay men and lbians s before the uprisg at Stonewall Inn?
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
* 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?
ON FIRE ISLAND, NEW YORK'S ELE GAY GETAWAY, THE PARTYG PSED FOR BLACK LIV MATTER PROTTS
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. 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.