Cherry Grove, Fire Island : sixty years in America's first gay and lesbian town / Esther Newton ; with a new preface.
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TextPublisher: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014Edition: Duke editionDescription: xxiv, 378 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780822355533
- 0822355531
- Gays -- New York (State) -- Fire Island (Island) -- History
- Lesbians -- New York (State) -- Cherry Grove -- History
- Gay men -- New York (State) -- Cherry Grove -- History
- Gay community -- New York (State) -- Fire Island (Island) -- History
- Lesbian community -- New York (State) -- Fire Island (Island) -- History
- 306.76/6309747 23
- HQ75.6.U5 N49 2014
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| 306.76 KUK Beyond magenta | 306.76 KUK Beyond magenta | 306.76 MCB Tomorrow will be different : love, loss, and the fight for trans equality / | 306.76 NEW Cherry Grove, Fire Island : | 306.76 NUT Becoming Nicole : | 306.76 SAV IT GETS BETTER: COMING OUT, OVERCOMING BULLYING, AND CREATING A LIFE WORTH LIVING | 306.76 SAV IT GETS BETTER: COMING OUT, OVERCOMING BULLYING, AND CREATING A LIFE WORTH LIVING |
Originally published: Boston : Beacon Press, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-367) and index.
How the Grove became gay : 1936-1945. "Built upon the sand" -- The gay country club : 1946-1959. The battle for the beach -- Conviviality and camp -- Trouble in paradise -- The nation takes shape : 1960-1969. The rise of gay commercialism -- The geometry of gay prejudice -- Plays, parties, and sex -- The "Lithuanians" and the "doughnut rack" : the lesbian minority : 1936-1980. The "fun gay ladies" -- "Just one of the 'boys'" -- The Grove after stonewall : 1970-1980. The ad hoc committee to save Cherry Grove -- Bored on the Fourth of July.
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