Fire Island Is the Rare Movie That Celebrat Effemate Gay Men

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• ‘FIRE ISLAND’ IS THE RARE MOVIE WHERE EFFEMATE GAY MEN ARE IN ON THE JOKE

‘FIRE ISLAND’ IS THE RARE MOVIE WHERE EFFEMATE GAY MEN ARE IN ON THE JOKE

Few prev perd dramas pict the experienc of gay men durg World War II. In an terview for the BBC, screenwrer Peter Bowker said: “We are hopefully now at a time where we n tell a story about two gay men livg durg the Send World War that is not sublimated to Brief Enunter.

Cabaret and Bent have theater and film adaptatns that prent the German gay experience which Nazi party supprsn was implemented several years before the war.

Queer people lived durg World War II and they had to navigate survivg not only homophobia their own untri but also Nazi Germany’s legalized genoci. The swastika may be only the begng of what Webster and Albert face when those power fd out they are gay.