Flashback to this year’s Invasion ❤️🤍💙 During the summer of 1976, a restaurant in the Pines denied entry to a visitor in drag named Terry Warren. When Warren's friends in Cherry Grove heard what had happened, they too dressed up in drag, and, on July 4, 1976, with Cherry Grove's 1976 Homecoming Queen Panzi in the lead, sailed to the Pines by water taxi. The boatload of drag queens that stormed into the Pines that day—to a surprised but exuberant welcome—was the first "invasion," an event we are so excited to celebrate each year. . . . #fireislandpines #FIPines #lgbt #gay #queer #fireisland #loveislove #fourthofjuly #WEAREFIP #newyork #pride