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GAY FIRE ISLAND
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Fire Island is referenced a lot popular culture, for example the Fire Island TV seri and a new gay Pri and Prejudice adaptatn set on Fire Island. We’re all head to the same place: Fire P—a queer hamlet on the larger Fire Island, though the nam n be ed terchangeably—is a gay mec.
“We ma somethg really, really special and unique and gay, ” Fire Island star and scribe Joel Kim Booster tells me over the phone, about six months after that ferry ri. This is what gay men do all the time.
“SOMETHG SPECIAL AND UNIQUE AND GAY”: YOUR FIRST LOOK AT FIRE ISLAND
”In a world where queer ntent typilly skews toward the treacly (thk Love, Simon), or the tragic (thk The Power of the Dog), makg a story about gay love for a major movie stud is self somethg of a radil act. (Though not too radil: Billy Eichner’s gay rom- Bros, which also featur an all-queer prcipal st, hs theaters this September.
’” Booster shelved the ia for years, only for to reemerge an say he wrote for a now funct blog about his nnectn to Aten as a gay man. Was there a gay Amber Alert we all somehow missed?
”“Sometim if you’re gay, you don’t thk you n be classist or racist, ” Cho tells me between tak. ”Or, as Booster puts : “What happens when gay men are put together on an island and there are no straight people to opprs ?