A 2021 exhibn om the New-York Historil Society took an timate look at one of the first gay beach towns the Uned Stat.
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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.
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"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.
"As you walk around this exhibn, we hope you will bee aware of the joyo eedom of exprsn that LGBTQ people monstrate so many of the photographs, rememberg that pre-Stonewall 1950s was a time when persecutn and prosecutn led the liv of homosexuals maland Ameri.
Yet the 1950s was a richly creative historil perd Cherry Grove when gay and straight people worked and played together, whether theatril productns, stumed cktail parti, annual balls, or a range of muny-sponsored events. Cred: Cherry Grove Archiv Collectn, Gift of Gay Nathan and Julie Paradise"Safe/Haven: Gay Life 1950s Cherry Grove" was prented njunctn wh the Cherry Grove Archiv Collectn. Throughout the exhibn, visors uld hear personal, rerd acunts om members of the Cherry Grove muny about their experienc and Cherry Grove, gay men and women uld socialize out the open, whether on the beach or on the cks of Grove ho.