QUEER GROVE
Exploring the history, culture and lifestyle of the legendary LGBTQIA+ safe haven of Cherry Grove, Fire Island. Hosted by documentary filmmaker Parker Sargent, we'll learn about the gay roots of the Grove and how the community continues to stay gay, through interviews of those who helped create this LGBTQ safe space and those who are keeping queer today.
Episodes
9 episodes
EPISODE 6: Extra
*This is a QUEER GROVE episode extra*The LGBTQ spectrum keeps expanding and one's identity an important part of their queer journey, and everyone finds what term best describes them.
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8:02
EPISODE 6: What About the Women?
We're looking at the women’s history in Cherry Grove. Their struggles for acceptance in a gay male driven environment, the bonding, the sexuality and the important impact they’ve had on the community.
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Episode 6
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43:02
EPISODE 5: Let's Talk About Sex
There is a sexual energy in Cherry Grove...and that energy can be felt in the literal space, but it has also become part of the identity, how the world sees this small sand bar that has become a promise in queer culture of a place that you can ...
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Episode 5
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47:35
EPISODE 4: Extra
*This is a QUEER GROVE episode extra*It seems like the queer identity has always been part of culture, but its a rather new concept in the scope of society.So we wanted to share more of our interview with Hugh Ryan to f...
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23:10
EPISODE 4: Here Come The Gays
We’re going to take a look back at the gays that came before us. Not just who they are, but the path that they had to tread to create queer community and how it brought them to Cherry Grove.
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Episode 4
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44:38
EPISODE 3: Extra
*This is a QUEER GROVE episode extra*In the Grove we have more straights than we usually admit to, but because they embrace the lifestyle and culture of Cherry Grove, we all kinda consider them queer too.This is especially true of...
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13:05
EPISODE 3: The Founding Families
When we’re talking about the queer history of Cherry Grove, it can seem easy to discount the influence of the straight people that were here first, but a lot of what they created in the early years, would be the foundation for the community whe...
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Episode 3
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32:58