The Sale of Fire Island's Gay Paradise Is Fally Complete

Contents:

• FIRE ISLAND: A GAY PARADISE OF SEX AND LIBERATN
• FIRE ISLAND GAY TRAVEL
• THE SALE OF FIRE ISLAND'S GAY PARADISE IS FALLY COMPLETE
• SUN, SAND, AND SK: FIRE ISLAND’S GAY HAVEN THE NETEEN-SEVENTI
• A GAY GUI TO FIRE ISLAND

FIRE ISLAND: A GAY PARADISE OF SEX AND LIBERATN

Loosely molled on Pri and Prejudice, Kim Booster's film shows Fire Island as a place of ntradictns; a space where you n be your thentic self, and let all hang out among iends, but also an tensely theatril space, where rol are performed, looks (judgmental, flirtat) are exchanged, and six-packs are rom- Fire Island pats a nuanced picture of s eedoms and hierarchi (Cred: Disney+)While readg Jane Aten one summer on Fire Island, Kim Booster "uldn’t help", he wrote a recent say for Pengu, but "map" the experienc of her characters "navigatg the limg social nventns of her time" onto "the siarly tortured social nventns of gay male spac". Edmund Whe, who wrote about a fictnalised versn of Fire Island his 1973 but novel Fettg Elena, not his memoir Cy Boy how the ruals of gay social life there "rhymed my imagatn wh the ruals of medieval Japan or Versaill". Around the same time, queer and artsy folk om the cy were first disverg holiday rentals the small, stic muny of Cherry Grove, talysg a procs that would e to create what anthropologist Esther Newton lls "Ameri's first gay and lbian town".

FIRE ISLAND GAY TRAVEL

After a 1938 hurrine stroyed many of the ho Cherry Grove, Newton observ her history of the muny, gay men and lbians bought up much of the lots, then gog cheap, om the Long Island fai who prevly owned them. The Grove's more upmarket neighbour, Fire Island P, was veloped later, the 1950s, as a "fay-iendly" muny, although this label didn't last for very long, spe the fact that numero gay homeowners had moved there om the Grove the hop that would act as a more discreet enclave.

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.

THE SALE OF FIRE ISLAND'S GAY PARADISE IS FALLY COMPLETE

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.

SUN, SAND, AND SK: FIRE ISLAND’S GAY HAVEN THE NETEEN-SEVENTI

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.

A GAY GUI TO FIRE ISLAND

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.