Fire Island is a party in the sand. Forty-five minutes from New York City, this 32-mile long, one quarter-mile wide ribbon of sand offers 17 very different and distinct communities which include the famous and infamous gay and lesbian enclaves of Cherry Grove and The Pines. Celebrating America's freedom to live loud and proud while following hundreds of drag queens in the annual invasion of the Pines, playing drag BINGO, and participating in the weekly offering of Broadway on the island.