Step off the 20-minute ferry from Sayville and you'll find bamboo-lined pathways welcoming you to The Pines on Fire Island.
FIRE ISLAND PINES, Suffolk County -- Step off the 20-minute ferry from Sayville and you'll find bamboo-lined pathways welcoming you to the Fire Island Pines.
"Everyone is unique, everyone is different," said Bobby Bonanno, with the Fire Island Pines Historical Preservation Society."People say, like, when did you realize it was gay?" homeowner Gary McGregor said."I said, you know what? I never really realized it. I remember my parents having really cool friends."
McGregor spent summers growing up there, and his late father, a well-known hairdresser, built the house in 1967."Because gay was just not really accepted back then, guys would be getting off the ferry and almost just ripping off their suits," McGregor said."Guests included Andy Warhol, Steve Rebel, fashion designer Chester Weinberg," Bonanno said."This home right here was the home of John Whyte," Bonanno said.
Part of the Fire Island Pines Historical Preservation Society, a non-profit he founded in 2010, is guiding visitors past more than 40 properties and parts of a painful history of the island. "Men were not allowed to dance with men," he said."If two men were getting close together, the flashlight would be shown on them because there were raids that happened here.""This is a brand in Bali that hand makes these," said Ryan Espinoza, of Denizen."I wanted this to be a communal space where people could gather that was very free and very playful," Espinosa said."The homeownership has completely changed in the last two years," he said.
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