The Metrograph, NY’s newest and hottest Art house theater is showing a series of movies in August under the banner ‘On Fire Island.’ The program celebrates the unique gay summer destination that queer New Yorkers have been flocking too in droves for decades now. During this time this 30-mile-long sandy utopia has been witness to … Continue reading
Queer Basque-American journalist and photographer koitz has published his first photography book titled ‘koitz Gay Fire Island”. The book chronicles his work over 14 summers in the two mostly LGBTQ+ communities of Fire Island: Cherry Grove and The Fire Island Pines, and it includes a Foreword by author Patrick Ryan and Introduction by curator Nicholas … Continue reading
Just in case we are not allowed out all summer (!) here’s a reminder of what we will be missing. Well, if we were planning to spend it on Fire Island…… Filmed by Brian Emerrick
Artist/photographer/writer Tom Bianchi who specializes in male nude photography has a new exhibition that opens today (and runs to Sept 16) of images he took of the gay mens paradise in the 70’s: Fire Island Pines. Called ‘Fire Island Pines Polaroids 1975-1983’ which is also the title of a memoir that Bianchi published a couple … Continue reading