Fire Island Black Out, more popularly known as FIBO, is the annual celebration
and summer season finale for the LGBT community of color. Our popularity has
grown from 50 attendees in 2003, to nearly 2,000 last year.
The three-day event begins the evening of Friday, August 8. On the morning of Saturday, August 9, we are on the
beach in Cherry Grove followed later that evening by the FIBO Bump & Dip dance party at Cherry Grove's
Ice Palace Night Club.
On Sunday, August 10
is the FIBO Brunch, open to all remaining island visitors.
FIBO
is proud to announce that in 2008, a portion of proceeds from our
dance party will benefit the Ali Forney Center,
a New York-based not-for-profit organization, which houses LGBT adolescents and provides
them with the skills necessary to help them transition into adulthood.
With the purchase of our official Bump & Dip bracelet (for just $20)
dance party attendees can help a great cause as well as enjoy good music and
island-wide discounts on food, services and goods, as well.
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ISLAND RULES
There are no Life Guards at the beach. Rest Room Facilities are
located at the Ice Palace.
1. FIRE SAFETY
The Fire Department wants you to have a safe stay in the Grove. To them we owe
the following cautionary notes and vital information. Most Grove houses are made
entirely of wood and are surrounded by equally combustible grass and brush. The
walks are also wooden, which makes discarding of cigarette butts hazardous.
Please observe NO SMOKING signs, beginning at the dock. Please be careful if
you smoke. Crush out all cigarettes; don't toss them off the walk into the sand or
grass. They could land in or blow into combustible material. Don't toss them on
the walk, either; the leaf litter under the walk is highly combustible. Open Fires are
not allowed anywhere on Fire Island. This includes the beach and the National
Seashore property. Fireworks are illegal on all of Fire Island.
2. THE DUNES
DO NOT WALK ON THE DUNES. Don’t dump trash or trimmings on the dunes; it is
destructive to the dunes’ ecosystem and unsightly too.
3. DEER
DO NOT FEED THE DEER, however appealing they may seem. Fire island National
Seashore regulations forbid deer feeding: it encourages them to rely on handouts
and in severe winters they starve. They also carry ticks that can cause Lyme
Disease.
4. DOGS
Leashes, please, on walks and the beach. Please, don’t let your dog (or cat) roam
free. Doggy-doo-doo is a ‘don’t-don’t’! Even dog lovers must be repelled by
stepping on a moist turd at night when walking home from a party.
5. NOISE
Radios played at high volume at any time can be disturbing to your neighbors.
Tastes in music vary. Reasonable people can differ as to what noise is mildly
annoying and what is outrageous. In general, please be aware of your
surroundings and please be considerate, especially at night. There are those of
us who do not dance till dawn and who retire early.
6. RESPONSIBILITY
All of us are responsible for keeping the Grove a safe and pleasant place to live
and visit. Littering, consuming open containers of alcoholic beverages on the board
walks and illegal drug use are prohibited. The responsibility of keeping the Grove
a safe and a pleasant place to visit rests with all of us.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Information courtesy of www.cgcai.org/2cherrygrove.htm