WATCH: All the tea on the history of gay mec Fire Island, as told by the queer ins who've lived - Queerty

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• GAY MEC ON FIRE ISLAND SELLS FOR $10.1 MILLN AT AUCTN
• WATCH: ALL THE TEA ON THE HISTORY OF GAY MEC FIRE ISLAND, AS TOLD BY THE QUEER INS WHO’VE LIVED
• WATCH: ALL THE TEA ON THE HISTORY OF GAY MEC FIRE ISLAND, AS TOLD BY THE QUEER INS WHO’VE LIVED
• RENOWNED GAY MEC ON FIRE ISLAND GO TO AUCTN
• GAY HISTORY: WATCH FOOTAGE OF FIRE ISLAND THE 1980’S – VIDEO

GAY MEC ON FIRE ISLAND SELLS FOR $10.1 MILLN AT AUCTN

New York|Gay Mec on Fire Island Sells for $10.

WATCH: ALL THE TEA ON THE HISTORY OF GAY MEC FIRE ISLAND, AS TOLD BY THE QUEER INS WHO’VE LIVED

1 ln at ctn on Thursday to velopers wh plans to ntue the revival of a former mec for closeted gay sale price was well below the $25 ln the prev owners sought when they placed on the market last fall, and below the $17 ln they paid for 2010. In a al hammered out over more than six hours, the property was bought by Ian Reisner, who also owns the Out NYC, a hotel on Wt 42nd Street Manhattan that foc on a gay clientele.

Reisner, who said he has been visg Fire Island P sce he me out as gay 1989. Loted 90 mut om New York Cy, Fire Island P beme a statn for gay men after was found 1952. 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.

WATCH: ALL THE TEA ON THE HISTORY OF GAY MEC FIRE ISLAND, AS TOLD BY THE QUEER INS WHO’VE LIVED

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.

RENOWNED GAY MEC ON FIRE ISLAND GO TO AUCTN

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.

GAY HISTORY: WATCH FOOTAGE OF FIRE ISLAND THE 1980’S – VIDEO

The 1969 uprisg at the Stonewall Inn, which is largely creded as the turng pot the gay civil rights movement, has been documented by numero scholars. Jt off the ast of New York state li a magil, gay getaway known as Fire Island. How did go om sleepy beach town to an epicenter of gay arts, theater, and culture?