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The longtime residents, who were mostly straight families from Long Island, used Cherry Grove as a fishing spot and for the amazing beach. This is the time of the McCarthy era and the Lavender Scare, when men couldn't dance with men, women can't dance with women.

We have houses out here. In the s, it was dangerous for queer people to document themselves. It's easy for us as a newer generation to think they must have just been living in hell — but to look back at these photos, the people in them are happy.

I felt like, gay my god, I'm looking into the faces of people I know today. As the area evolved over the years, one man made it his mission to save artifacts from this community, eventually forming the Cherry Grove Archives Collection. They may not have been highly affluent, but they had enough income to rent these basic little cabins out on Cherry Grove.

What makes these photos so wonderful is that they are very rare. It's really wonderful. BuzzFeed News spoke with Sargent over the phone about why this collection is important. Check out a gallery of retro gaylenes after the jump!. There's this idea that before Stonewall, everyone was repressed.

There is a transient community in Cherry Grove, people who just come for the day to enjoy the beach and the bars. What began in the s as a simple collection of photos has become a treasure chest of queer history that includes house signs, playbills, and films that show the daily life and fabulous events of the Grove.

Lots of families. We have a lot of lost history that was thrown away, so these photos from the archives add so much to our knowledge of what gay life was like. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Browse vintage gay men videos and clips available to use in your projects, or start a new search to explore more footage and b-roll video clips.

We've always been here — 13 gay photos from the dawn of photography As long as there have been cameras, there have been gay folks recording our queer lives!. As a trans woman, I definitely felt like I was not present in Cherry Grove at that time, but gay men and women were there, carving out space that I get to inhabit today.

But when he died, he chose a group of people to continue his work. Take a step back in time to the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s with a queer throwback of decades past. They are joyous. As queer men were ostracized from society in the early 20th century, some came together to form a community on a secluded strip of beach just off gay coast of Long Island.

Of the 15 other communities on Fire Island, most of them are straight. And since then we've been trying to catalog and digitize everything he collected. There are a lot of people who rent [a house] for one week george gay midway a month.

Simply vintage photos developed that reflected homosexuality could get you arrested. When we started scanning images from the s, we were vintage blown away by joy. And queer people were not allowed to congregate.