The r-ee oasis off the southern ast of Long Island was the se of famo police raids and a landmark gay rights victory a year before Stonewall
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“By the nature of s isolatn and bety, beme a safe haven for gay people, where they uld not be aaid of repercsns om work, or anger om their fai about beg gay, ” Thom “Panzi” Hansen, print of the Cherry Grove Arts Project, told the Huffgton Post. It wasn’t until 1981 that nsensual gay sex was crimalized New York state—and remaed illegal some stat until 2003—but the Fire Island s were landmark victori the gay rights movement almost a full year before the famo Stonewall Inn rts.
From Osr Wil’s vis to the island 1882, to the steady velopment of Cherry Grove as “Ameri's First Gay and Lbian Town, ” Fire Island has long been a home and haven to LGBTQ visors and rints alike.
Long before the Stonewall Rts set the movement for Gay Liberatn to motn, Fire Island provid an important enclave to rints and visors at a time when almost everythg about livg openly as a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer (LGBTQ) person was illegal the Uned Stat. The Cherry Grove Communy Hoe is exceptnally signifint for the enormo role played shapg what gradually evolved to Ameri's First Gay and Lbian Town.
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As anizatns, the Cherry Grove Property Owners Associatn and Cherry Grove Arts Projects profoundly fluenced the muny's velopment, facilatg the gradual social acceptance, self-affirmatn, and tegratn of s gay and lbian rints to Cherry Grove's erng affairs and civic life. This tegratn of LGBTQ rints to daily life and events at s muny hoe afford Cherry Grove a sgular stat; beme the one of the first and, for many years, the only gay and lbian fluenced geography the Uned Stat. Its metamorphosis played out agast turbulent social and polil upheavals -- our natn's rponse to the pre- and early days of the homosexual liberatn movement.