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It is a hallmark of a given social class and milieu that fundraising takes place in the form of benefit galas, the kinds of events to which guests are drawn by factors beyond mere altruism, even if the outcome is ultimately the same. Benefits for various gay causes were hosted at the Pines every other summer weekend, considered chic, and well attended.” Perhaps this was the ultimate Pines formula-give back, but make it fashion. “No matter how ‘out’ you were among family and at work,” Picano recalls of his immediate social circle, “we were staunchly supportive of gay rights and gay politics. In Terry Miller’s Pines 79, another Fire Island play staged in New York the year after Whitmore’s, men in their mid-twenties and early thirties are no less damning about the bore of political engagement, and describe an Advocate fundraising party in the Pines as a “seminar” and “all a bunch of nonsense.” “Most people would be better off taking a course in irresponsibility,” one quips.įelice Picano, another of the Violet Quill writers, remembers the island in the 1970s, when he was in his thirties, as a more charitable place. Larry, a classically doomed queen in his late forties, arrives at the holiday home of his ex-boyfriend, who is now a successful screenwriter and has a handsome younger boyfriend named Buddy, who lives off Paul’s wealth and is completely unmoved by gay politics.
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The narrator spots one of his political friends one night on the Sandpiper dance floor, shorn of his usual activist getup, and wearing “lemon-colored painter’s pants and a shocking-pink athletic shirt, a plastic belt and blue suede dancing shoes.” This admittedly horrific-sounding outfit illustrates how strange it was to see the man “consorting so enthusiastically with the very milieu he’s always seemed to resent so-as exemplifying all the ills of gay life: ingrown, artificial, hedonistic, uncharitable, moneyed.” Whitmore also pokes fun at the apoliticism of the Pines in his 1980 play The Rights, set on the deck of a Fire Island beach house one August. In his 1980 novel The Confessions of Danny Slocum, the writer George Whitmore observed how activists behaved off duty on Fire Island. Some younger gay men were equally at home on the frontlines of a march and the fringes of the Pines, frustrated by the political indolence of the moneyed homeowners and older men, as well those, of a similar age, who were left cold by the day’s dominant causes. Paying $20 for a ticket to what promised to be the party of the year was the kind of political gesture that everyone, even those gay men less endeared to the presence of activist causes during their summer vacations, could get behind. The aim to raise money for the fire truck was a cause that spoke widely to the whole community, and though it was attended by movers and shakers of numerous persuasions, in execution, the beach party was truly a victory for the gay disco contingent. The relations between gay and straight residents were the community’s most obvious fissure, but as in the Grove, there were also concerns about the influx of day-trippers who came to enjoy the tea dance and other island rituals, something that even led owner John Whyte to cancel tea at the Blue Whale for several years. Longtime Pines resident and “Beach” co-organizer Ron Martin, who began serving on the Fire Island Property Owners’ Association in 1978, the youngest gay man on a mostly straight board, remembers the divisions that needed addressing, or at least papering over, if the party was to be a success. It was an ambitious event, ten months in the making, and required an unprecedented level of trust and collaboration from different parts of the community. The party, simply named “Beach”, was scheduled for the following summer. When the idea for an all-night fundraising party came up at a department meeting in the summer of 1978, plans quickly developed, and the mostly straight members of the fire department began to collaborate with the gay men who had already developed quite a reputation for throwing elaborate summer bashes.
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It was evident in the late 1970s that the Pines needed a new fire truck, but it lacked the funds to buy one.
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Numerous establishments on the island have burned down in suspected arson attacks, like Duffy’s in Cherry Grove in 1956, but a similar number have been razed by freakish accidents and spontaneous fires. True to its name, fires are not uncommon on the island due to a combination of factors, including vicious winds and the precarious timber construction of the oceanfront. Being in effect a hamlet, with provisions and services in miniature, the Pines had only a small, volunteer-run fire department.