“Somethg Special and Unique and Gay”: Your First Look at Fire Island | Vany Fair

Contents:

• GAY FIRE ISLAND
• THE VERY GAY HISTORY OF FIRE ISLAND
• FIRE ISLAND GAY CY GUI
• A GAY GUI TO FIRE ISLAND
• “SOMETHG SPECIAL AND UNIQUE AND GAY”: YOUR FIRST LOOK AT FIRE ISLAND
• ‘FIRE ISLAND’ IS YET ANOTHER MOVIE FEATURG F GAY MEN
• THE BT CARIBBEAN DTATNS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS

GAY FIRE ISLAND

Fire Island is referenced a lot popular culture, for example the Fire Island TV seri and a new gay Pri and Prejudice adaptatn set on Fire Island. How did one particular summer settlement on Fire Island bee a ‘safe haven’ for gay men and lbians almost nety years ago, s before the uprisg at Stonewall Inn?

THE VERY GAY HISTORY OF FIRE ISLAND

It is the se of one of the olst gay and lbian muni the Uned Stat, suated wh two neighborg hamlets — Cherry Grove and the Fire Island P. Durg the 1930s actors, wrers and craftspeople om the New York theatril world began headg to Cherry Grove, s remote and stic quali allowg for gay and lbians to exprs themselv eely — far away om a world that rejected and persecuted them. And they are joed by Parker Sargent, a documentary filmmaker and one of the curators of Safe Haven: Gay Life 1950s Cherry Grove, a new exhibn at the New-York Historil Society, highlightg photography om the llectn of the Cherry Grove Archiv Collectn.

Listen Now: The Very Gay History of Fire Island. Go see the show Safe/Haven: Gay Life 1950s Cherry Grove at the New-York Historil Society. 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.

FIRE ISLAND GAY CY GUI

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.

A GAY GUI TO FIRE ISLAND

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.

“SOMETHG SPECIAL AND UNIQUE AND GAY”: YOUR FIRST LOOK AT FIRE ISLAND

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. 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.

‘FIRE ISLAND’ IS YET ANOTHER MOVIE FEATURG F GAY MEN

Fire Island P and the neighborg Cherry Grove prise the diverse and welg gay muny on Fire Island.

In fact, some say that the island was Ameri’s “first gay and lbian town, ” and ed, sce the 1920s and 30s, is served as a refuge for those seekg diversy, acceptance, and the more liberal attu that prevails on the island. While anywhere Fire Island is a betiful place to live, the two thrivg gay muni on Fire Island are Fire Island P, and Cherry Grove. Cherry Grove: One of the olst muni on Fire Island, Cherry Grove is wily known as beg the first muny Ameri where gays and lbians uld be open and ee exprsg their sexualy, even long before the morn gay rights movement began.

THE BT CARIBBEAN DTATNS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS

Connect wh a top Fire Island Gay Realtor today! It is the olst ntually operatg gay summer theater the Uned Stat.