The New-York Historical Society is about to launch an exhibit of SAFE/HAVEN: GAY LIFE IN 1950s CHERRY GROVE. This OUTDOOR photographic Exhibit will give an intimate look at one of the first gay beach towns in the United States. It explores mid-20th-century gay life in Fire Island’s remote hamlet of Cherry Grove, located on…
Thanks to Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s ‘Lavender Scare’ culture, the 1950s’ became one of the most homophobic times in American history. McCarthy and his people created a world in which gay people were persecuted and ostracized both at work and at home. After President Eisenhower’ issued an Executive ORder “sexual perversion” it became grounds for the investigation…
Susan Kravitz has been photographing Independence Day on Fire Island since the early 1980s’ and she sat down with queerguru to talk about her stunning her book Mascara, Mirth & Mayhem – Photography by Susan Kravitz prior to a Book Signing and Exhibition at Stonewall National Museum – Wilton Manors Gallery The interview was filmed by #HusseinWentz
