For anyone in need of a massive infusion of romance, there are few things better than finding yourself on the top deck of the Fire Island Ferry heading back to Sayville under a moonlit night as fireworks explode over your shoulder in an already-starry sky.

And on top of that, you’re still beaming from Baydance, where the Perry Twins turned it out with a set of summer favorites remixed and mashed up in a loving Fire Island Pines style that focused on hands-in-the-air exuberance.

And as you turn to watch the fireworks illuminating the sky, a handful of green lasers stretches toward you across the Great South Bay, much like the green light that so transfixed Jay Gatsby—and you’re reminded anew why it is that boys by the score land on the enchanted shores of Fire Island.

In fact, the scene at 531 Sail Walk, the plush locale of Baydance, evoked those house parties that Jay Gatsby threw when he opened his Long Island estate to the young and beautiful, the rich and powerful. The definitive Independence Day Weekend Pines house party, Baydance is a benefit for Fund in the Sun Foundation, the non-profit public charity that helps underfunded LGBT organizations—with this year’s Baydance proceeds benefiting the NYC LGBT Community Center.

Produced by FornabaioVoss Events, those wunderkinds behind several of Manhattan’s more popular weekly parties including Rockit and Club 57, this year’s Baydance included a particularly large cast of nubile young things who poured through the gates of 531 Sail Walk like a school of iridescent fish (a metaphor which is in no way connected to the fact that every ticket to Baydance included an all-night, open bar…)

This was a house filled with Mr. Bigs, including Matthew Bank, Hal Rubenstein, David Nickle, Steve Weinstein, Eric von Kuersteiner, Brad Carpenter, Ryan Bell, Josh Wood, Brandon Voss, Tony Fornabaio, Adam Weaver, Russell Roybal—as well as a harem of glamazons, and the always-irrepressible Robin Byrd. And there was go-go god Geronimo, inflamed with the spirit of Terpsichore, and the always-delicious Michael D’Arinzio, —and boys such as Corey Hill, Alex Breitman, James Calero, and Chris Vaughan packed like penguins on the floating dance floor, which bobbed and throbbed in the Great South Bay.

And as the sun slipped below the horizon, the boys paused to aim and shoot, digital cameras at the ready—before night took over, ushering in recording star Debby Holiday, the voice behind such summer anthems as “Dive” and “Surrender Me,” singing her latest hit “Heaven.”

Sponsors included Zico coconut water, which is, surely, summer’s essence in a bottle—and the perfect post-excessive exuberance rejuvenator. Worked for us!

As for the fireworks, there were starbursts and pinwheels in pink, purple, white, and red, shooting into the sky like jeroboams of bubbly—while onboard the ferry, a group of tipsy revelers performed their own spotty rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

One thing’s for sure: this year’s Baydance proved that the Pines is hotter than ever. Mark your calendars now for Ascension Weekend, the 13th -15th of August 2010.

Fire Island Pines—summer just keeps getting better.