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BT GAY-IENDLY BAR AT PLEASURE ISLAND
We're not an exclively 'gay/queer' party nor are we a 'straight uple swap' type party. ) It feels ftg, if not historilly felico, to image Wil as the patron sat of the island’s later eratns, cuttg a flamboyant figure on s gay beach avant la lettre. Many years later, the perd jt prr to Stonewall, the Mattache Society activist Craig Rodwell worked a summer bartendg on Fire Island to raise money for New York’s first gay and lbian bookstore, which opened 1967 and was ftgly named the Osr Wil Memorial Bookshop.