Porn impresario Michael Lucas says he ejected Calvin Klein's ex-boyfriend/newly out straight man Nick Gruber from a party on Fire Island this weekend. "I am straight, and I don’t want any gay people to touch me," is a quote.

I imagine that in the past, Fire Island provided a real sense of security for gay men (and women – they're there, just mostly confined to Cherry Grove, which neighbors the male-centric Pines section of the island). I can see the former necessity of a place where they could go and be their gay selves without worrying about persecution.

Starting at about 9:30pm yesterday, the main complex on the harbor in the Fire Island Pines, gay-list New York's summer getaway, caught on fire destroying the historic Pavilion nightclub, the bar Sip 'N' Twirl, the restaurant Pines Bistro, and the eateries and retail spaces below them. The whole complex will be demolished. Here are some scenes from the wreckage.

A bartender at New York's gay summer getaway the Fire Island Pines doesn't need to be able to just pour vodka tonic after vodka tonic after vodka tonic. No, he needs to be sexy, too! Join us and let's see who's hot and who's not.

For most of us, July 4th is just a steamy, fading memory. But the cast of Logo's The A-List must relive it again and again as they fight and fuss their way across Fire Island. Oh, what a scene.

Just like with troubled school children, the problems of gay housewives start at home. Not only are there design disasters and petty arguments, but secret boyfriends and lies about size. Let's peer into their scary world.

Rep. Barney Frank apparently got all hot and bothered over a denied $1 senior discount for a Fire Island ferry. What did he expect? He forgot his Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID! There are regulations in this world, Barney Frank.

Seth Weissman, Matthew Blesso, and Andrew Kirtzman just purchased nearly all the commercial property in New York's gay summer enclave. No, they're not turning straight, jacking up prices, or serving foie gras mousse. We talked to them about their plans.

Today the deal to purchase a large chunk of the commercial property in New York's gay summer enclave was finalized. The new owners, a real-estate development triumvirate, say they won't change a thing, at least for now.

Logo's gay housewives show must have scared off potential participants with the name "Kept," so it was given a new title and direction. But producers still plan to feature buff, beautiful Gay-listers. And they're still casting. Lucky you!

It was just announce that most of the business spaces in the Fire Island Pines will be purchased by FIP Ventures, a group consisting of Seth Weissman, former CBS journo Andrew Kirtzman, and real estate developer Matthew Blesso.

The bulk of commercial property of gay summer resort Fire Island Pines is in the process of being bought by an unknown twentysomething hedge funder. Here's what we've dug up on the new King of Gay Paradise.

Gossip is already flying about Fire Island, the getaway for New York's A-list gays. Long-time monopolizer Eric von Kuersteiner—who owns practically everything in the community—has sold all his properties to a mysterious 23-year-old gay kid.

Old guys: Jon Gosselin's still around, Paul McCartney still has lady problems. Brody Jenner, Joe Francis: small penises. Pattinson, Stewart, and the sacred word. Fire Island, the East Village, Africa: we are the world. Presenting your Sunday Morning Gossip Roundup:

One of these men is dressed to go to work as the judge at Ocean Beach in Fire Island, a job that entails meting out "beach justice to young party perps," according to today's Daily News. Can you tell which one? Click through to the News article for the answer. [NYDN]

Things just get better and better for fashion designer Derek Lam. In July, Lam sold a majority stake in his label right before the market collapsed, he's now at work on his first freestanding store in SoHo, and he continues to earn praise as creative director of Tod's. Plus, he just got back to town after a blissful Thanksgiving weekend spent on the beach in Turks and Caicos, which means he's well-rested. And now he has a new weekend home, too. Lam and his longtime partner, Jan-Hendrik Schlottman, have paid $2.15 million for a three-bedroom, oceanfront home—with pool and hot tub, of course—on Ocean Walk in the Fire Island Pines.

Media gadfly and sometimes Radar blogger Choire Sicha hung out at the Meat Rack in Fire Island this weekend, wearing short-shorts and pretending to read. Why? There have been recent arrests for public sex in the gay-cruising area, and he's ready to catch them in the act! (The act of arresting, that is.) Hey, did the"circle jerk for freedom" protesting the arrests ever take place?

Every summer, the gays of the culural elite (like John Waters, Atlantic Monthly's Andrew Sullivan, musician Rufus Wainwright) gather on the car-free Fire Island and Provincetown, Mass., to party and play. And yes, sometimes have sex outside, they way all creatures were meant to! Only in recent weeks, they've been getting arrested for that. (Awkward!) As Cherry Grove resident Choire Sicha writes for Radar, "[The Fire Island arrests] are the first known arrests for public sex on the federal land." (Some people think a "circle jerk for freedom" might help matters.) Meanwhile, in Provincetown, an effort to keep public sex under control via citations for "lewd acts" have shot way up, says the Cape Cod Times.

Rod Townsend's annual account of eavesdropping on Fire Island's boys of summer is back for 2008. [Manhattan Offender]

Rod Townsend records the gays in and around their natural environment of Fire Island and reports back. All dialogue 100% verbatim.