Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town Paperback – December 3, 2014
by Esther Newton
Hustand Thomas Prince Farrar
Queer Places:
Pride House, Beach Walk, Yaphank, NY 11980
Beatrice Howard Farrar (March 18, 1888 - July 26, 1950) was born in New York on March 18, 1888. Previously of Garden City, NY, by 1937 Farrar had settled in Laguna Beach. She died there on July 26, 1950. The life of this person has been researched by Esther Newton for her essay: "Cherry Grove, Fire Island", published by Duke University Press.
Thomas Prince Farrar was born at New Orleans and practiced architect there. He lived at Biloxi where he did scenic painting and costume designs. In June 1933, he married Beatrice Howard. Farrar relocated to New York City and worked in theatre design until his death there in June 1951.
Beatrice Howard Farrar first married Thomas Locker, a New York designer and artist. After their divorce she spent time in Paris artistic circles, where she met Janet Flanner and Dolly Wilde. Back in the States, Beatrice married Thomas Farrar, a set designer and theatrical effects man for the John Ringling North Circus. After she and Thomas, who was gay, were divorced, they continued to live together.
In the early 1950s, after Thomas Farrar’s death, Allen Prescott and his companion, Ray Mann, and Miles White, the Broadway and circus costume and set designer, lived with Beatrice Farrar for two summers.
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