From Jesse Dorris’ article for The Guardian:
The book offers a welcome entry to the work of locals such as Dennis McConkey and John Laub, whose paintings capture the plain magic of the sand, waves and clouds, and Ferron Bell, who queered the landscape with surreal visual puns. An essential chapter by Ksenia M Soboleva, the writer and historian, gets on to the record how, for most of the 20th century, women weren’t really welcome. It was only in the late 1980s when, as she writes, “the Aids crisis had depressed the rental market and tarnished the carefree nature of queer cruising … [and] as women slowly but surely came into better economic standings and felt more sexually liberated in the wake of the sex wars, the lesbian presence in Cherry Grove [reached] unprecedented heights”.

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