Fire Island is still welcoming locals and New Yorkers that adhere to strict social distancing measures.Fire Island Pines and Cherry Grove have been popular gay hotspots with the LGBTQ community for decades.
One fan of the island is theatre director and cabaret singer Seth Sikes.Related: Gay summers on Fire Island remembered in evocative new photo bookHis latest YouTube video is a tribute to Fire Island and its iconic ferry.
It’s performed to the tune of ‘On The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe’, an Oscar-winning song by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren.
It was performed by Judy Garland in the 1946 movie, The Harvey Girls.Sikes has changed the lyrics to comment on the South Bay ferry bringing LGBTQ visitors to Fire Island in “the perilous.