Amelia Abraham

Amelia Abraham’s Queer Intentions was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2020.

From The Blog
18 January 2023

Fire Island, 35 miles long and never more than half a mile wide, runs parallel to the South Shore of Long Island. Famous for its rare ecology as well as its gay nightlife, it flips the traditional narrative of queer migration from rural to metropolitan America on its head. The ‘sunken forest’ – scrubland through which deer wander freely – is next door to the barrier island’s gay villages: Cherry Grove (the community more closely associated with lesbians) and the Pines (gay men).

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