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Every summer from 1954 til 1968, plain-clothed police from Suffolk County would cross the Patchogue Bay into Fire Island to make mass arrests of gay men in the ‘Meat Rack’, a cruising forest connecting the gay communities of Cherry Grove and Fire Island Pines.
In August 1968, 27 men were arrested in the annual raid. 22 pleaded Not Guilty. This is a play.
A commision for Little Island