Durg the 1950s, Cherry Grove provid gay dividuals a much-need pe om the homophobia and the legal and social persecutn that many experienced
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WAS JOHN HARGREAV GAY
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HOT GAY SUMMER: IN 1950S, CHERRY GROVE ON FIRE ISLAND OFFERED SANCTUARY, CREATIVE AND SEXUAL FREEDOM. 14 PHOTOS OM SHOW OPENG TODAY NYC
A 2021 exhibn om the New-York Historil Society took an timate look at one of the first gay beach towns the Uned Stat. * john hargrove gay *
In civil rights, women's rights and gay rights, persistence has led to great advanc. 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. "Cherry Grove on Fire Island beme a weekend and summer statn for gay men and women the pre-Stonewall era of the 1950s and 1960s, " said Dr.
"At a time when they faced homophobia and persecutn, the rints of Cherry Grove found a sanctuary where they uld socialize and exprs themselv eely.