Is Fire Island a gay muny? Learn more about the settg of the new Hulu rom- ‘Fire Island,’ starrg Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang.
Contents:
- “SOMETHG SPECIAL AND UNIQUE AND GAY”: YOUR FIRST LOOK AT FIRE ISLAND
- 'FIRE ISLAND' TRAILER: 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' GO GAY WH JOEL KIM BOOSTER, BOWEN YANG
“SOMETHG SPECIAL AND UNIQUE AND GAY”: YOUR FIRST LOOK AT FIRE ISLAND
The romantic edy follows a tight-kn group of queer iends over the urse of a weeklong sojourn on Fire Island, a legendary gay holiday statn. “Especially a place like Fire Island, where sudnly there are no straight people around to opprs and we have to fd ways to opprs one another, we recreate the artificial class systems and other hierarchi that exist the rt of the world but are jt magnified and felt so much more viscerally a place where ’s only gay people.
“The movie talks about how Fire Island has been this place where gay men have historilly gone to feel safe, and asks what you do when you feel unsafe there, among your ‘own kd, ’” she said. Part of s power is that skillfully balanc the more ser them wh a distctly gay sense of humor: Be on the lookout for a hysteril scene volvg the game Heads Up! Andrew Ahn: I thk that there’s somethg about the way Jane Aten scrib judgment and asssment that feels really gay.
'FIRE ISLAND' TRAILER: 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' GO GAY WH JOEL KIM BOOSTER, BOWEN YANG
Especially a place like Fire Island, where sudnly there are no straight people around to opprs and we have to fd ways to opprs one other, we recreate the artificial class systems and other hierarchi that exist the rt of the world but are jt magnified and felt so much more viscerally a place where ’s only gay people.
Margaret Cho: I thk that even the tle, “Pri and Prejudice, ” uld be “Gay Pri and Gay Prejudice. Our class stctur, our ias about race, genr, homophobia – all of those are very rigid, almost as rigid as Regency England.
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