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.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface to the 2014 Edition
- Prologue
- Part I. How the Grove became Gay: 1936–1945
- Chapter 1. “Built upon the Sand”
- Part II. The Gay Country Club: 1946–1959
- Chapter 2. The Battle for the Beach
- Chapter 3. Conviviality and Camp
- Chapter 4. Trouble in Paradise
- Part III. The Nation Takes Shape: 1960–1969
- Chapter 5. The Rise of Gay Commercialism
- Chapter 6. The Geometry of Gay Prejudice
- Chapter 7. Plays, Parties, and Sex
- Part IV. The “Lithuanians” and the “Doughnut Rack”: The Lesbian Minority, 1936–1980
- Chapter 8. The “Fun Gay Ladies”
- Chapter 9. “Just One of the ‘Boys’”
- Part V. The Grove After Stonewall: 1970–1980
- Chapter 10. The Ad Hoc Committee to Save Cherry Grove
- Chapter 11. Bored on the Fourth of July
- Epilogue
- Appendix on Methods
- Notes
- Narrators
- References Cited
- Index
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