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Having grown up on Long Island and with great memories as a toddler of the Fire Island beach in the early 70's... I went to the link and read the post.

"We have to stand unified and not drop a cent on a vodka soda or 10 dollars on a mediocre hamburger. We have to understand that our dignity costs more than a cocktail or a dance on the dock. The men that built that paradise that we now frequent, fought and died so that we could be afforded the freedoms we have. The soul of the island goes deeper than a tea dance. Every groove on that boardwalk holds our history. Every grain of sand on that beach holds our struggle. We would be spitting in the face of all those who have come and gone before us."

What is the LBQT equivalent of a marble statue of a man on horseback, rearing?

I had no idea Fire Island was taken by brave gays with rifles, fighting and dying on the sands of Fire Island and Jones Beach, pushing up at great bloody cost through Nassau and Suffolk until the very Gold Coast itself yielded to those brave warriors and their mud and sand spattered artillery.

The bitter advance of the hard, grim faced Rainbow Legion rivaled the Charge of the Light Brigade as they bled and killed their way through Locust Valley and took Oyster Bay.

"We have to stand unified and not drop a cent on a vodka soda or 10 dollars on a mediocre hamburger. We have to understand that our dignity costs more than a cocktail or a dance on the dock. The men that built that paradise that we now frequent, fought and died so that we could be afforded the freedoms we have. The soul of the island goes deeper than a tea dance. Every groove on that boardwalk holds our history. Every grain of sand on that beach holds our struggle. We would be spitting in the face of all those who have come and gone before us.

Hyperbole much? Three guys had a conversation and subculturally, this is the second coming of the Somme?