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== History == Ocean Beach was incorporated as a village in 1921.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=History|url=https://villageofoceanbeach.org/historical-society|access-date=2021-07-25|website=Village of Ocean Beach|language=en-US}}</ref> It formed with the merger between the tract of land owned by John A. Wilbur and Stay-A-While Estates. It is the location of Fire Island's only elementary school, which first opened in 1918.<ref name=":0" /> The community was once a favorite of celebrities including [[Fanny Brice]], [[Carl Reiner]], and [[Mel Brooks]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Koppelman |first1=Lee |last2=Forman |first2=Seth |title=The Fire Island National Seashore |year=2008 |publisher=State University of New York Press |location=Albany, NY |isbn=978-0-7914-7342-9 |page=10 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BdCF-q7HIY4C&pg=PA10 |access-date=2011-12-18 }}</ref> When artistic bohΓ¨me of New York started frequenting Fire Island during the [[Jazz Age]], Ocean Beach became the first [[gay village]] of the island.<ref name="jiler">{{Cite book |last=Jiler |first=John |title=Dark wind: a true account of hurricane Gloria's assault on Fire Island |date=1993 |publisher=St Martin's press |isbn=978-0-312-09311-2 |location=New York |pages=28β31 |author-link=John Jiler}}</ref> This caused tensions between the gay (often famous) tourists and locals, which peaked when [[Antoine de Paris]] built on his land an outdoor toilet with revealing saloon door right across the street from a Catholic church. The villagers arranged a provocation by choosing a teenage boy to "seduce" one of Antoine's guests, and after catching the guest ''in flagranti'', they burned down Antoine's property.<ref name="jiler" /> After that and the [[Great Hurricane of 1938]], the gay community settled in the Cherry Grove.<ref name="jiler2">{{Cite book |last=Jiler |first=John |title=Dark wind: a true account of hurricane Gloria's assault on Fire Island |date=1993 |publisher=St Martin's press |isbn=978-0-312-09311-2 |location=New York |pages=46β48}}</ref>
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