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Cherry Grove, Fire Island – Sixty Years in America`s First Gay and Lesbian Town de Esther Newton

Cherry Grove, Fire Island – Sixty Years in America`s First Gay and Lesbian Town

Autor Esther Newton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 dec 2014
First published in 1993, the award-winning "Cherry Grove, Fire Island" tells the story of the extraordinary gay and lesbian resort community near New York City. This new paperback edition includes a new preface by the author.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822355533
ISBN-10: 0822355531
Pagini: 424
Dimensiuni: 168 x 229 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

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Textul de pe ultima copertă

For thousands of gay men and lesbians in America, Cherry Grove - the oldest continuously inhabited resort on Fire Island - has meant freedom. Not simply the leisure-time freedoms from work and noise and pollution, but the far rarer freedom to socialize in public without risking a beating, to stroll arm in arm without hesitation, to leave the curtains open without fear - in short, to live the American dream that was denied to gay men and lesbians on the U.S. mainland. In her rich and detailed cultural history of Cherry Grove, Esther Newton tells for the first time the full story of this unique community, the oldest gay and lesbian town in America. Covering the years from the 1930s to the present day, Newton has captured the lives of "oldtimers" the people who created Cherry Grove's gay life decades ago, as well as the lives of relative newcomers. Interviewing nearly a hundred people, Newton shares with us the words of the men and women who have built the houses, tended the businesses, preserved the land, and conserved the rich identity of the Grove. The resort's first gay residents were deeply involved in the arts, and the early chapters of the book recall the lasting impact of the many Grovers on the world of New York theater, magazines, and nightclubs. In addition, Newton recounts the Grove's land battles, community disputes, and interpersonal rivalries as well as episodes of violence, police harassment, exploitation by the media, and hatred from straights. Grovers survive, Newton finds, by relying on their own brand of camp culture - a blend of theatricality, partying, and cross-dressing that is at the heart of the community's distinctive and autonomous gay sensibility. Vividrecollections of the Grove's outrageous parties and productions, especially the well-known "Invasion" of the neighboring Pines resort, are woven together with the residents' recognition of the toil that encroaching old age and the onslaught of AIDS is taking on Grove's life. Sustained throughout by the author's personal observations and reflections, Cherry Grove, Fire Island illuminates both the history of America's first gay and lesbian community as well as the significant role of gay men and lesbians in twentieth-century American history.

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Acknowledgments xi
Preface to the 2014 Edition xv
Prologue 1
Part I. How the Grove Became Gay: 1936¿1945 13
1. "Built upon the Sand" 15
Part II. The Gay Country Club: 1946–1959 37
2. The Battle for the Beach 43
3. Conviviality and Camp 68
4. Trouble in Paradise 94
Part III. The Nation Takes Shape: 1960¿1969 109
5. The Rise of Gay Commercialism 113
6. The Geometry of Gay Prejudice 142
7. Plays, Parties, and Sex 170
Part IV. The "Lithuanians" and the "Doughnut Rack": The Lesbian Minority, 1936–1980 203
8. The "Fun Gay Ladies" 207
9. "Just One of the 'Boys'" 221
Part VI. The Grove after Stonewall: 1970¿1980 235
10. The Ad Hoc Committee to Save Cherry Grove 243
11. Bored on the Fourth of July 266
Epilogue 285
Appendix on Methods 301
Notes 305
Narrators 349
References Cited 353
Index 369