Fire Island

Liza And Alan Cumming At Town Hall: My Review

"I think this is the only time a show from Cherry Grove, Fire Island has transferred to Broadway!" cracked Alan Cumming at Town Hall last night. Last summer, he and Liza Minnelli did a joint show on the Island, and it was the buzzy event of the season, effectively turning two Fosse-handed Cabaret s ... More >>

Mitt Romney Will Lead Us Into An Age Of Sheer Stupidity

My new column is a bracing look at what a vote for Mitt Romney will amount to: A solid endorsement of intolerance, lies, and most of all changing his mind!!!

I'm Grilled About Nightlife, Journalism, And My Alleged Porn Career

Yes, I've been in three porn films. Fully clothed. It was a prelude to a kiss, so to speak. Dramatic set up for the hardcore delights. And I reveal it in Kevin Novinki's penetrating, as it were, interview with me for 2bexposed.com, which exposes a lot of other things too.

Sex, Drag Queens, and Fudge At the Other Gay Resort

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Sex, Drag Queens, And Fudge At The Other Gay Resort

I just went to Provincetown, the gay jewel of Massachusetts--even more so than the recent Boston production of Billy Elliot--and found that it's racy, carnivalesque, and totally hopping with boys, drag stars, taffy, lobster rolls, and celebrity sightings. And I wrote this crazy column about it, whi ... More >>

Big Brother Star Traipses Around Town In Underwear

And it's big, brother! This is a promo Will Wikle shot to promote a Daniel Nardicio undies party coming up in Fire Island.

139 More Drag Names To Tickle Your Tucked Privates!

Sarabelle Palsy read my blog about the fab drag characters like herself who paraded off the boat at the Fire Island invasion on Wednesday. And Sarabelle told me she's come up with several thousand more such names! Brace yourself for an exhaustively researched and punny bunch of wordplay fit for a ... More >>

Yesterday's Fire Island Invasion Brought All New Drag Names

Every year, a boat full of gussied-up drag queens cruises from Fire Island's Cherry Grove into the harbor of the Pines as an annual protest of the time Grove drag queens were denied drinks at the Pines' Blue Whale because they weren't "real women." This is sort of like Stonewall in reverse--we're c ... More >>

I Met A Hot Guy And Deleted His Number

And I'm proud of myself! This was on Fire Island, where I was hanging with a friend and became joined by two shrieking fans, who were campy and hilarious. Just then, a handsome, mixed-race, sort of 30-year-old version of the Rock sauntered out--looking hot--and said he wanted to join us because we ... More >>

Fourth of July Is On A Wednesday This Year!

This is absolutely horrible! How are people going to get a long weekend out of July 4 if the actual holiday is in the middle of the week? I suspect a lot of people will just take it as a vacation week and go away, but it's silly to use a vacation week when you already have a day off in the middle ... More >>

'Housewives' Rock The Hamptons! Underwear Boys Take Fire Island!

A tour of Fire Island, the Hamptons, the anti-Hamptons. All nice. Now it's back to Murray Hill.

This Week In The Voice: Mata and Moreno's Other Incident

​This week in the Voice, Graham Rayman brings light to another case involving Kenneth Moreno, Franklin Mata, and a young, intoxicated woman. Just a few months before the alleged rape for which they were acquitted, the two were accused of being verbally abusive to a woman, refusing to take her ... More >>

The Five Worst Things About Fire Island

​That season is approaching, where the gays and gay-friendly swarm to Fire Island to be away from it all. But when they get there, they find every single person from New York, so they haven't gotten away from anything! I happen to love the place anyway, with some noted exceptions. They are: ... More >>

The Five Best Songs of 2010

​Here they are, according to Keo Nozari, the popular DJ who spent 2010 spinning at Rockit, Club 57, the Fire Island Pines, G Lounge and more, and who releases his new album, "Love Boutique," in early 2011. 1. "DANCING ON MY OWN" by Robyn. Says Nozari, "The underappreciated European sensatio ... More >>

Will Hurricane Earl "Smoosh" with Jersey Shore?

Hurricane "Snooks."​Labor Day weekend isn't looking to be the last-hurray-of-summer-sunshine affair its supposed to be, with Hurricane Earl ready to very literally rain on the plans of anyone about to have one last blowout before calling the summer off. And it looks like the Jersey Shore -- wh ... More >>

Paul Krassner Leads Fire Island Incursion

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 7, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 43 Swarming Into The WASP Nest by Jonathan Black Point O' Woods is one of Fire Island's quainter attractions, an anachronistic fenced-in retreat for vacationing WASPs with nary a Jew or a black to disturb ... More >>

LET THEM EAT PIG

And wash it all down with free beer!

Mindy Cohn is Sort of Mad at Me

​When I paid an on-set visit to the upcoming indie film Violet Tendencies last year, I assumed Mindy Cohn was speaking on the record when she said she got drinks for "Calvin Klein's butt boy" in Fire Island back in the '80s. To my happy ears, it seemed to be part of our interview. But she sa ... More >>

Sunny Times For Fire Island

​The gay ghetto known as Fire Island is starting to recover from a bad 2009, which is good news for the gays who work out all day so they can do drugs all night.

Jack Nicholson Doesn't Know It All

That's the message of this week's column, in which Jeff Daniels--currently in the rom-com The Answer Man--tells me that when he worked with Jack ages ago in Terms of Endearment, he was amazed to learn that the superstar isn't always the answer man himself. Daniels also tells me about whether he's g ... More >>

The Queer Issue: Beefcake's Golden Age

They're Putting The Gays In Camps

I knew this would happen: A boot camp just for gays, starting next Monday morning. And it's even called, unabashedly enough, "Gay Men's Boot Camp." But this isn't some kind of POW detainee prison with barb wire and only solid colors. It's a place for self-inflicted punishment, designed to make your ... More >>

Fire Island Looms

Before you know it, it'll be Fire Island time again and all the queers and their supporters will hop the overpriced train to the overpriced van to the overpriced ferry, so they can walk back and forth on wooden planks looking for something to do.

Who Seems Gay, But Isn't?

Miguel Angel Azua Garcia Come on, put on your lavender thinking caps and tell me which celeb you always thought was a sister, but it turns out he or she isn't. And conversely, let's hear which celeb did you NOT think was gay in a million queer years, but he/she turned out to be gayer than Richard S ... More >>

East Coast Oysters vs. West Coast Oysters, Bout One

The pugilists (clockwise beginning at the lower left): Beaver Tail, Fire Island, Meximoto, Phantom Creek   "In this corner, defending the honor of East Coast oysters," the ringmaster intoned, "are Beaver Tails from Rhode Island, and Fire Islands from Long Island." "And in that corner," h ... More >>

Wanda Sykes Comes Out

Hello New York! Whale Songs Heard for First Time in NY Waters

Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild

Clip Job: Fire Island Parties - Feiffer Stays Home

Fire Island Update: In Praise of Sayville

Clip Job: Dear Voice, 'You Are So Damned Phony'

Jerry's City of Ghosts

Fighting to hold on to a home—and to history

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Aimed at AIDS Relief, Dances Stir the Atmosphere and the Heart

Letters

Alien vs. Predator

What the McGreevey mess means for closets, corruption, and casting couches

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Fuck 'Em on the Dancefloor

Post-Disco Pervs Get Dicks in the Mix and Treat Cootchies Like a Maze

Scents and Sensibility

Smelling Like a Tsar

Theater

Listings

Tales of Rick

A Son of the Suburbs' Trail to the Senate

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Ferry Drama

Babes In Boyland

Pumping it up in the Pines

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