Cherry Grove, Fire Island

Cherry Grove, Fire Island PDF Author: Esther Newton
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377217
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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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.

Cherry Grove, Fire Island

Cherry Grove, Fire Island PDF Author: Esther Newton
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377217
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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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.

Welcome to Fire Island

Welcome to Fire Island PDF Author: Jack Nichols
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780900997815
Category : Cherry Grove (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Faggots

Faggots PDF Author: Larry Kramer
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802136916
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Thirty-nine-year-old Fred Lemish had always hoped that love would find him by the age of forty, and with four days to go, he begins a compulsive, yet humorous, search for that love and commitment, in a classic novel of gay life. Reprint.

Margaret Mead Made Me Gay

Margaret Mead Made Me Gay PDF Author: Esther Newton
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822326120
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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DIVA collection of essays by a pioneering queer anthropologist./div

Dungeons and Drag Queens

Dungeons and Drag Queens PDF Author: Greg Scarnici
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781793186669
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 213

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In his second collection of humorous essays, comedian, Greg Scarnici recounts some of his shocking and scandalous experiences over twenty-five seasons on New York's Fire Island. From tea dances in Fire Island Pines to drag competitions in Cherry Grove, Scarnici paints a picture of what a typical summer on the island of misfit boys is like. Highlights include being crowned the Worst Drag Queen in Cherry Grove, getting innocently lured to a "sex dungeon" that was actually a 3X4 garden shed, and riding the ferry as his alter ego, Levonia Jenkins, every Fourth of July with two hundred other drag queens during the annual Invasion of The Pines.Along the way, Scarnici weaves in some of the history of Cherry Grove, and introduces some of its most colorful characters. Find out what it's like to slap on a synthetic wig on a ninety-degree afternoon, hook up in the notorious Meat Rack, and party on the beach until the sun rises during the annual Pines Party. "Greg Scarnici is not only on Fire Island, he's on fire! His breathless tales of drag queens subverting and carrying on in the Pines and the Grove are as revealing and informative as Speedos on a flaccid penis." -Michael Musto, NewNowNext"Greg has given me the greatest gift - hearing his stories is like getting to eavesdrop and spy on my favorite misfit boys until I'm clutching my pearls and gasping."- Cecily Strong, Saturday Night Live"I'm still not sure if I should be flattered or sue over the story of mine Greg shares, but since the rest of his Fire Island tales are painted in equally hilarious and scandalous shades, I'm just gonna keep my attorney on retainer in case this becomes a movie." - Sherry Vine, Drag Diva

PURGATORY and PARADISE

PURGATORY and PARADISE PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991014132
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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PHOTO BOOK ABOUT SASSY'S 70 IN NY

Fire Island Pines (Limited Edition)

Fire Island Pines (Limited Edition) PDF Author: Tom Bianchi
Publisher: Damiani Limited
ISBN: 9788862083140
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This collector's edition of Tom Bianchi's Fire Island Pines is limited to 67 numbered copies, and comes in a special orange cloth slipcase with a tipped-in cover image. It also contains a fine art giclée print signed and numbered by Bianchi. In 1970, fresh out of law school, Bianchi began traveling to New York, and was invited to spend a weekend at Fire Island Pines, where he encountered a community of gay men. Using an SX-70 Polaroid camera, Bianchi documented his friends' lives in the Pines, amassing an image archive of people, parties and private moments. These images, published here for the first time, and accompanied by Bianchi's moving memoir of the era, record the birth and development of a new culture. Soaked in sun, sex, camaraderie and reverie, Fire Island Pines conjures a magical bygone era.

My Butch Career

My Butch Career PDF Author: Esther Newton
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
ISBN: 9781478008330
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In My Butch Career Esther Newton tells the compelling, disarming, and at times sexy story of her struggle to write, teach, and find love, all while coming to terms with her identity. Newton recounts a series of traumas and conflicts, from being molested as a child to her failed attempts to live a “normal,” straight life in high school and college. She discusses being denied tenure at Queens College and nearly again so at SUNY Purchase. With humor and grace, she describes her introduction to middle-class gay life and her love affairs. By age forty, where Newton's narrative ends, she began to achieve personal and scholarly stability in the company of the first politicized generation of out lesbian and gay scholars with whom she helped create gender and sexuality studies. Affecting and immediate, My Butch Career is a story of a gender outlaw in the making, an invaluable account of a beloved and influential figure in LGBT history, and a powerful reminder of only how recently it has been possible to be an openly queer academic.

The Overland Track

The Overland Track PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780724639397
Category : Cradle Mountain-Lake Saint Clair National Park (Tas.)
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Fire Island Pines

Fire Island Pines PDF Author:
Publisher: Damiani Limited
ISBN: 9788862082709
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Tom Bianchi's erotic and celebratory Polaroids of magical summers on Fire Island Growing up in the 1950s, Tom Bianchi would head into downtown Chicago and pick up 25-cent "physique" magazines at newsstands. In one such magazine, he found a photograph of bodybuilder Glenn Bishop on Fire Island. "Fire Island sounded exotic, perhaps a name made up by the photographer," he recalls in the preface to his latest monograph. "I had no idea it was a real place. Certainly, I had no idea then that it was a place I would one day call home." In 1970, fresh out of law school, Bianchi began traveling to New York, and was invited to spend a weekend at Fire Island Pines, where he encountered a community of gay men. Using an SX-70 Polaroid camera, Bianchi documented his friends' lives in the Pines, amassing an image archive of people, parties and private moments. These images, published here for the first time, and accompanied by Bianchi's moving memoir of the era, record the birth and development of a new culture. Soaked in sun, sex, camaraderie and reverie, Fire Island Pines conjures a magical bygone era. Tom Bianchi was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago and graduated from Northwestern University School of Law in 1970. He became a corporate attorney, eventually working with Columbia Pictures in New York, painting and drawing on weekends. His artwork came to the attention of Betty Parsons and Carol Dreyfuss and they gave him his first one-man painting show in 1980. In 1984, he was given his first solo museum exhibition at the Spoleto Festival. After Bianchi's partner died of AIDS in 1988, he turned his focus to photography, producing Out of the Studio, a candid portrayal of gay intimacy. Its success led to producing numerous monographs, including On the Couch, Deep Sex and In Defense of Beauty. --Guy Trebay "The New York Times, Styles Section"