We were greeted by a brief wand of a metal detector before a drag queen claimed our crumbled cash to enter. The front deck of The Dunes Resort was matronly and resolute; the veranda only slightly ...

I never knew you could drive to Fire Island – not to Cherry Grove or The Pines, the two very gay towns farther out on the island, but to Robert Moses State Park and the western tip of the Fire Island ...

The Fire Island beaches look as beautiful as postcards with plentiful dunes and wide expanses, in part due to massive amounts of sand used to replenish them. And summer winds have been shifting sand ...