THERE’S A DISTINCT palette to Fire Island Pines, the gay beach getaway a two-hour train ride from New York City. Boxy houses and boardwalks made of untreated cedar have gone gray from the salt air.

“Star Wars” poster boys are pictured in Fire Island Pines in August 1977. Despite growing up in North Massapequa, a small Long Island town about 25 miles west of Cherry Grove, Meisler only ...

Fire Island Pines, a historic and iconic gay community, is undergoing a major transformation under new ownership. Tristan Schukraft, a hospitality entrepreneur known for revamping LGBTQ venues ...

As a symbol of Fire Island, the red wagon is still ubiquitous. It appears on souvenir coffee mugs, shot glasses, key chains, hats, T-shirts, baby onesies. It’s featured on restaurant signs, as a ...

'Fire Island' stars Joel Kim Booster, ... “It’s important to create art about Fire Island which really memorializes the history and the important figures,” actress and comedian Cho said in a ...

For the series, Urquiaga collaborated with photographer Carmen DeCristo, who this summer became the first trans woman to exhibit work in the Fire Island Pines Biennial Art Show.Though they took ...

Fire Island has been a destination location for Long Islanders and jet-setters for decades. Here are pictures from Newsday's archives of Fire Island through the years. Credit: Newsday The Ocean ...

A fire last night destroyed the building that housed the Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR), which hosts lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer-identified artists on New York’s Long ...