Hence, gay men in the area began to hold tea dances outside the city as an alternative venue for meeting.
In New York, these generally took place on Fire Island, in Cherry Grove and the Pines, on Sunday afternoons.
Because they were held in the afternoon, attendees could catch a ferry and return home and be ready to work on Monday morning.
[5] Tea dances spread beyond New York and lasted into the 1990s and beyond, regularly taking place in Miami,[6] Fort Lauderdale,[7] Provincetown,[8] and Los Angeles and San Francisco,[4] among other cities.
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