When I sat down to chat with koitz, I wanted to know what keeps a photographer coming back to the same beachy oasis and crowded dance floors for over two decades. He didn’t start taking pictures on Fire Island to build an archive of LGBTQ+ history. In the beginning, he was simply snapping whatever caught his eye. “I first started going to Fire Island regularly in 2006,” koitz told me. “I didn’t love Cherry Grove immediately it took me a while to…
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