'Fire Island' trailer: 'Pri and Prejudice' go gay wh Joel Kim Booster, Bowen Yang

Contents:

• EVERYTHG WE KNOW ABOUT FIRE ISLAND, A NEW GAY PRI AND PREJUDICE ADAPTATN
• 'FIRE ISLAND' TRAILER: 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' GO GAY WH JOEL KIM BOOSTER, BOWEN YANG
• PARTI AND BOOZE ABOUND 'FIRE ISLAND,' HULU'S GAY TAKE ON 'PRI AND PREJUDICE'
• FIRE ISLAND GAY TRAVEL
• A GAY GUI TO FIRE ISLAND
• FIRE ISLAND REVIEW – BREEZY GAY SP ON PRI AND PREJUDICE FAILS TO IGNE

EVERYTHG WE KNOW ABOUT FIRE ISLAND, A NEW GAY PRI AND PREJUDICE ADAPTATN

Durg the trip, a nng joke beme that he would make "the gay Pri and Prejudice. As Searchlight Pictur scrib, the film is an "unapologetic, morn day rom- showsg a diverse, multicultural examatn of queerns and romance" centerg on two bt iends (Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang) who set out to have an unfettable summer 's everythg we know about the From Town & CountryJoel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang lead the Yang and Joel Kim Booster Fire ParkBooster stars as Noah, a "happily, fiantly sgle" gay man, and Yang stars as his bt iend Howie.

'FIRE ISLAND' TRAILER: 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' GO GAY WH JOEL KIM BOOSTER, BOWEN YANG

It’s funny to see how when gay men are together and we are the majory, how we discrimate and divi ourselv even further. From Osr Wil’s vis to the island 1882, to the steady velopment of Cherry Grove as “Ameri's First Gay and Lbian Town, ” Fire Island has long been a home and haven to LGBTQ visors and rints alike. Long before the Stonewall Rts set the movement for Gay Liberatn to motn, Fire Island provid an important enclave to rints and visors at a time when almost everythg about livg openly as a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer (LGBTQ) person was illegal the Uned Stat.

PARTI AND BOOZE ABOUND 'FIRE ISLAND,' HULU'S GAY TAKE ON 'PRI AND PREJUDICE'

The Cherry Grove Communy Hoe is exceptnally signifint for the enormo role played shapg what gradually evolved to Ameri's First Gay and Lbian Town. As anizatns, the Cherry Grove Property Owners Associatn and Cherry Grove Arts Projects profoundly fluenced the muny's velopment, facilatg the gradual social acceptance, self-affirmatn, and tegratn of s gay and lbian rints to Cherry Grove's erng affairs and civic life.

FIRE ISLAND GAY TRAVEL

This tegratn of LGBTQ rints to daily life and events at s muny hoe afford Cherry Grove a sgular stat; beme the one of the first and, for many years, the only gay and lbian fluenced geography the Uned Stat. Its metamorphosis played out agast turbulent social and polil upheavals -- our natn's rponse to the pre- and early days of the homosexual liberatn movement.

The 1969 uprisg at the Stonewall Inn, which is largely creded as the turng pot the gay civil rights movement, has been documented by numero scholars. A morn take on the classic Jane Aten novel “Pri and Prejudice, ” “Fire Island” foc on two gay bt iends, Noah (Booster) and Howie (Yang), who take a trip to the P, a hamlet on New York’s Fire Island that’s a hotspot for queer culture. “I want people — pecially gay men, pecially queer people — to walk away om the movie happy that they’re gay, ” Booster told Vany Fair.

A GAY GUI TO FIRE ISLAND

“I thk that there are so many movi about the gay experience that are ght wh people who are unsure if they’re happy beg gay or stgglg wh g out… I want people to e away om this movie feelg the joy of our experienc and that ’s not all tragic. Directed by Andrew Ahn, Fire Island follows a group of gay men spendg a week at the queer hotspot off the ast of Long Island, New York. While givg Pri and Prejudice a morn, gay update, the romantic edy still manag to rema remarkably fahful to s source material.

Gays Space. The Paviln and Sip N Twirl will release their full event le-up the next few Island P first beme a statn for gay men 1952, when was illegal for two men to dance together public and when many the world viewed gay men as sexual viants. It is why every day on Fire Island P is gay Pri.

The two play bt iends who take a summer trip to Fire Island — known as one of Ameri's first gay beach towns, loted off the south shore of Long Island, N. Booster wanted to tell that story a "joyful" way that celebrat the gay the trailer, Booster’s Noah and Yang's Howie sh off to their statn where, “for whatever reason — ll magic — time, sort of, works differently, ” Noah says.

FIRE ISLAND REVIEW – BREEZY GAY SP ON PRI AND PREJUDICE FAILS TO IGNE

“I want people — pecially gay men, pecially queer people — to walk away om the movie happy that they’re gay, ” Booster said a recent terview wh Vany Fair.

“I thk that there are so many movi about the gay experience that are ght wh people who are unsure if they’re happy beg gay or stgglg wh g out. While some may only have bee aware of Fire Island when the gay rom- me out last year, the popular queer mec actually has a long and rich untold stori of this formerly-sleepy beach town turned gay party spot is the subject of Fdg Fire Island, a new podst by the Broadway Podst seri was created, executive produced and narrated by Hot Tak & Deep Div host Js Rothschild, who was also one of the foundg wrers of Autostraddle, and boasts terviews wh Fire Island stars Margret Cho, Joel Kim Booster, and Matt RogersFdg Fire Island will take listeners on a journey through the history of Fire Island, om the hamlets of Cherry Grove and The P to dg fueled parti and moments of queer joy. “As a native New Yorker, Fire Island was trsilly formative to my inty as a gay person, ” Rothschild said.