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BEFORE STONEWALL, CHERRY GROVE: HOW A BEACH TOWN BEME A GAY 'SAFE HAVEN'

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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 TRAVEL

Fire Island offers many gay lights. Here’s what you need to know before you strap on your Speedos and head out * gay part of fire island *

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 VERY GAY HISTORY OF FIRE ISLAND

How did one summer settlement Fire Island bee a 'safe haven' for gay men and lbians s before the uprisg at Stonewall Inn? * gay part of 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.

FIRE ISLAND GAY CY GUI

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." * gay part of 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. A few away, was said to be a welg muny of gay people.

A GAY GUI TO FIRE ISLAND

A gay gui to Fire Island, NY. Your gui on the history, clubs, hotels, pri on Fire Island. Read about how the area beme what is now. * gay part of fire island *

Hartmann walked down, and what she saw is on display at a new exhib at the New-York Historil Society, as well as chronicled the 1993 book “Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years Ameri's First Gay and Lbian Town” by Esther Newton. Hartmann, now 90, was terviewed for the exhib, “Safe/Haven: Gay Life 1950s Cherry Grove, ” which opens Friday at the New-York Historil Society, on Manhattan's Upper Wt Si.