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[0:00] Unknown speaker: Fire Island has really been in a renaissance for every generation, non-stop.

[0:08] Unknown speaker: My great-aunt went out there in 1930.

[0:10] Unknown speaker: I walked over there in 1956.

[0:14] Unknown speaker: It was the summer of 1976.

[0:17] Unknown speaker: 1984.

[0:18] Unknown speaker: What are you doing this summer?

[0:21] Unknown speaker: We're back on Fire Island.

[0:23] Unknown speaker: This time, seven layers deep, into the pines, Cherry Grove's sexier sister.

[0:30] Unknown speaker: I think one of the great mysteries about Fire Island is where and how stuff happens.

[0:35] Unknown speaker: A lot of it is obviously word of mouth.

[0:36] Unknown speaker: I know there are like telegram channels.

[0:39] Unknown speaker: There are obstacles that you don't even know exist, like houses collapsing.

[0:44] Unknown speaker: You couldn't smoke on the dance floor.

[0:46] Unknown speaker: You couldn't drink on the dance floor.

[0:48] Unknown speaker: The dance floor was for dancing.

[0:50] Unknown speaker: The sex was for upstairs in the balcony.

[0:53] Unknown speaker: And in the middle of the night, the police raided the DJ booth.

[0:57] Unknown speaker: I've been to the meat rack.

[0:59] Unknown speaker: I'm a gay man of a certain age.

[1:00] Unknown speaker: Yes, I was in the meat rack.

[1:02] Unknown speaker: She's like, do you think they're going to like me?

[1:04] Unknown speaker: And I'm like, you're Joan Rivers.

[1:06] Unknown speaker: While all of these things are true, like the money and the drugs and the beauty, all of that is true and it's a really great place for gay people.