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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
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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.
WATCH: ALL THE TEA ON THE HISTORY OF GAY MEC FIRE ISLAND, AS TOLD BY THE QUEER INS WHO’VE LIVED
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. 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.
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.
WATCH: ALL THE TEA ON THE HISTORY OF GAY MEC FIRE ISLAND, AS TOLD BY THE QUEER INS WHO’VE LIVED
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.
RENOWNED GAY MEC ON FIRE ISLAND GO TO AUCTN
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?
For starters, the st of last year’s lightful gay rom- Fire Island is well reprented. While some may only have bee aware of Fire Island when the gay rom- me out last year, the popular queer mec actually has a long and rich untold stori of this formerly-sleepy beach town turned gay party spot is the subject of Fdg Fire Island, a new podst by the Broadway Podst seri was created, executive produced and narrated by Hot Tak & Deep Div host Js Rothschild, who was also one of the foundg wrers of Autostraddle, and boasts terviews wh Fire Island stars Margret Cho, Joel Kim Booster, and Matt RogersFdg Fire Island will take listeners on a journey through the history of Fire Island, om the hamlets of Cherry Grove and The P to dg fueled parti and moments of queer joy.
“As a native New Yorker, Fire Island was trsilly formative to my inty as a gay person, ” Rothschild said. Twter Thks So ›Fire Island's Joel Kim Booster on the Toxic Legacy of 'No Asians' ›18 Nu Beach Every Gay Man Should Vis ›'Fire Island's Conrad Rimora Gets Married To Peter Wley Jensen ›.
GAY HISTORY: WATCH FOOTAGE OF FIRE ISLAND THE 1980’S – VIDEO
21, 2015When three lol rints bought up the mercial district along the harbor Fire Island P almost five years ago, they planned to transform the renowned yet ndown gay mec for a new age of gay acceptance and rather than buildg new facili, the owners found themselv rebuildg old on followg a vastatg fire.
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“It’s a betiful, glamoro place, a place that was central to gay liberatn, ” said Jay Pagano, print of the Fire Island P Property Owners Associatn. ”Found on Fire Island, Suffolk County, 1952, the muny quickly attracted closeted gay men, who uld keep a lower profile there than the more out enclave of nearby Cherry B.