ABOVE: Tan lines for days. BELOW: Keep reading for a history in gay music, the death of Naomi Judd, Elon Trump and more ... Life is a dance. (Image via Peter Kriss & Nate Pinsley) NYT: Here is the full story about that archive of cassette tapes from 1979-1999 that seems to document a huge portion of the gay parties on Fire Island — and which tell a tale of gay life on the island throughout the AIDS crisis.
It is good luck for us all that the couple who discovered the abandoned cassettes decided to save, digitize and publicize (not commercialize) them.
EXTRATV: Just weeks after performing with her daughter Wynonna at the 2022 CMT Awards, country legend Naomi Judd, 76, has died.
In a statement, her daughters chalked her death up to mental illness, indicating it was suicide. EXTRATV: Kip, the wait is over — Sonny is sorta single!