Fire Island
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
According to legend, the gay population began to concentrate in Cherry Grove at Duffy's Hotel with Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden dressed as Dionysus and Ganymede and carried aloft on a gilded litter by a group of singing followers. The gay influence was continued in the 1960s when male model John B. Whyte developed Fire Island Pines. The Pines currently has some of the most expensive property on the island and accounts for two-thirds of the island's swimming pools. |
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Fire Island is both the name of an island and the name of a census-designated place (CDP).
The island is one of Long Island's south shore outer barrier islands, approximately 31 miles (50 km) long and varying between approximately 0.1 mile (160 m) to 0.25 mile (400 m) wide. Fire Island passes through southern Suffolk County, New York, and is southeast of Long Island separated from the main land by the Great South Bay in the U.S. state of New York, running approximately SW to NE.
Notable people
- Calvin Klein, former resident
- David Geffen, former resident
- Sam Champion, former resident
- Tommy Tune
- Joan McCracken, early resident
- Harold Baer, Jr., resident, deceased
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