Art, eedom and drag vasns: the history of New York's Fire Island as a gay sanctuary

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New York’s ty Fire Island, featured the new rom- film of the same name, has a long history as a haven for gay people.

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Recently screened at the Sydney Film Ftival, Fire Island is a rom- spired by Jane Aten’s Pri and Prejudice, the film breakg tradnal nventns to feature gay romance as the plot. The island qutn is a barrier island off the ast of Long Island, New York Cy, featurg a unique and threatened environment that has long been a gay sanctuary, providg a space of eedom and exprsn at a time when same-sex activy was still illegal and gay muni highly policed.

To New York’s gay theatre personali, the Grove’s relaxed policg suggted eedom and safety, though they remaed outnumbered by the island’s wealthy heterosexuals. Amassg large bts the effort to rebuild, straight lols rented their properti to a younger metropolan crowd, a crowd who heard whispers of the island’s untamed bety throughout New York’s downtown gay scene. By the 1940s, the island’s small ntgent of gay theatre personali grew to a vibrant queer majory, and Cherry Grove earned s name as Ameri’s first gay and lbian town.

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Art, eedom and drag vasns: the history of New York's Fire Island as a gay sanctuary.

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