Now that the weather is changing and my tan has faded, I can't help but think of the nearly perfect summer I spent on Fire Island. The boys, the water, the natural beauty. Friends coming out. Breakups and reunions. The drinking. The sand. The boys. But I'm hardly the first gay man to experience The Pines.
Tom Bianchi captured Fire Island in its gay youth. Over on Out.com, Tom Bianchi shares pictures of what it was like then. "Over the next five summers Bianchi took roughly 6,000 Polaroids of hundreds of gay men -- friends, lovers, and near-strangers -- who were posing, partying, or having group sex in the idyllic disco- and Quaalude-fueled setting of pre-AIDS Fire Island." This was the world that created the myth and then the reality of Fire Island.
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