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    Fire Island Pines Dedicates Park For LGBTQ+ Trailblazers This Saturday

    Donald Padgett
    | 07/15/22

    Fire Island Pines Dedicates Park For LGBTQ+ Trailblazers This Saturday

    The new Trailblazers Park honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines

    Fire Island Pines is unveiling a new public space honoring LGBTQ+ trailblazers of the past and present this weekend, and you’re invited!

    Trailblazers Park will feature a water fountain with a tile mosaic by TM Davy which honors Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. Above the fountain will hang 16 flags honoring other LGBTQ+ trailblazers like Larry Kramer and James Baldwin as well as some lesser known figures like Zuni Native American leader We’Ha, and the proud Puerto Rican butch lesbian Carmen Vazquez. Contributing artists include Wolfgang Tillmans, Nicole Eisenman, Raul de Nieves, Lyle Ashton Harris, Martine Gutierrez and others.

    The ribbon cutting will start at noon Saturday, July 16, and feature speeches by members of the Brookhaven City Council, author Eric Cervini, the FIPPOA/Fire Island Pines Property Owners Association president, activists, and, of course, trailblazers. A march and reception will follow the ribbon cutting.

    As an added treat, the long-running Fire Island Dance Festival is also that same weekend.

    Keep scrolling to see all the flags honoring our LGBTQ+ trailblazers at Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines.

    Photo courtesy FOP. All other photos courtesy of artist and FOP.

    Trailblazer - Audre Lorde

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

    Lyle Ashton Harris (artist)

    Trailblazers - Barbara Gittings & Kay Tobin Lahusen

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

    Victor Jeffreys II. (artist)

    Trailblazer - Bayard Rustin

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

    Eric Lesh (artist)

    Trailblazer - Carmen Vazquez

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

    Martine Gutierrez (artist)

    Trailblazer - Edie Windsor

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

    Nicole Eisenman (artist)

    Trailblazer - Frank Kameny

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

    Carlos Pisco (artist)

    Trailblazer - Glenn Burke

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

    Tiffany Malakooti (artist)

    Trailblazer - Harvey Milk

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

    Hugo Gyrl (artist)

    Trailblazer - James Baldwin

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

    DonChristian Jones (artist)

    Trailblazer - Jerry Herman

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

    Edgar Mosa & Joe McShea (artists)

    Trailblazer - Kiyoshi Kuromiya

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

    Wolfgang Tillmans (artist)

    Trailblazer - Larry Kramer

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

    Richard Des Jardin (artist)

    Trailblazer - Pauli Murray

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

    Ryan Ponder McNamara (artist)

    Trailblazers - Supreme Court Plaintiffs

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

    Joseph Conforti (artist)

    The Invading Drag Queens

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

    Raul De Nieves (artist)

    Trailblazer - We’wha

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

    Carolos Motta (artist)

    Trailblazers Park in Fire Island Pines honors LGBTQ+ heroes of the past with individualized flags created by various artists.

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