I'm not sure what I expected when gog to the screeng for 'Fire Island,' but the morn-day adaptatn of Pri and Prejudice proved to be the fun summer rom- that simultaneoly warmed my heart and lent me sight to the plexi of datg as a gay man.
Contents:
- A MORN GAY TAKE ON 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' IS HEADG YOUR WAY
- ‘FIRE ISLAND’ REVIEW: JOEL KIM BOOSTER’S LIVELY GAY ROM-COM PUTS THE PRI ‘PRI AND PREJUDICE’
- GAY PRI (AND PREJUDICE)
- SPOTIFY’S ‘GAY PRI & PREJUDICE’ MARRI A BELOVED CLASSIC WH QUEER STORI AND SCRIPTED FICTN PODSTS
- JANE ATEN MEETS MARRIAGE EQUALY GAY PRI & PREJUDICE PODST
- 'FIRE ISLAND' TRAILER: 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' GO GAY WH JOEL KIM BOOSTER, BOWEN YANG
- 'FIRE ISLAND:' THE GAY ASIAN 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' ROM-COM YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU NEED, STARRG A RIPPED JOEL KIM BOOSTER AND ADORABLE BOWEN YANG
- "ASIAN" MEN ON THE SCENE: CHALLENG TO "GAY MUNI"
- GAY PRI (AND PREJUDICE)
- 'GAY PRI & PREJUDICE' TRAILER: JSE TYLER FERGON PREVIEWS NEW JANE ATEN ADAPTATN (EXCLIVE)
- GAY PRI & PREJUDICE CREATORS ON UPDATG JANE ATEN FOR THE PODST AGE
A MORN GAY TAKE ON 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' IS HEADG YOUR WAY
The first time Joel Kim Booster vatned on New York's Fire Island wh his iend, edian Bowen Yang, he brought wh him Jane Aten's Pri and Prejudice as a beach read. Over the years, he'd often joke wh iends about makg a gay versn of the novel. Today Booster is the wrer and star of Hulu's Fire Island, a queer, Asian rom based on Aten's classic, set the tular gay vatn spot. Booster talks wh gut host Elise Hu about how the film honors his queer iendships, subverts hetero rom norms, and tells a personal story that feels universal. You n follow on Twter @NPRItsBeenAM and email at * gay asian pride and prejudice *
Over the years, he'd often joke wh iends about makg a gay versn of the novel. Today Booster is the wrer and star of Hulu's Fire Island, a queer, Asian rom based on Aten's classic, set the tular gay vatn spot. Jane Aten ’s Pri and Prejudice gets transported to the Amerin South “Before the Fall, ” a morn, gay-themed “reimagg” of the lerary classic.
“Appalachia is nsistently picted on film as homophobic and vlent [but] the real world is much more plex than the stereotyp, ” he said. Ultimately, Geiser hop viewers will be remd that “the basic human need to experience life wh the person you love is the same basic need for both straight and gay people” after viewg his film, which premiered at Reelg: The Chigo LGBTQ Internatnal Film Ftival September. “I feel a huge rponsibily as a filmmaker to prent gay characters who generate a strong, emotnal nnectn wh the dience, ” he said, “and who provi the dience wh an opportuny to abandon prejudic.
This film is scribed as a morn gay take on the classic story.
‘FIRE ISLAND’ REVIEW: JOEL KIM BOOSTER’S LIVELY GAY ROM-COM PUTS THE PRI ‘PRI AND PREJUDICE’
Joel Kim Booster's gay rom- 'Fire Island' transplants Jane Aten to the cisy queer enclave, -starrg Bowen Yang and Margaret Cho. * gay asian pride and prejudice *
) Gay movi have their formulas, too, few of which end marriage.
GAY PRI (AND PREJUDICE)
A new retellg of Pri & Prejudice om Jse Tyler Fergon, Jt Mika, and Zackary Grady is the gay adaptatn we've been wag for. * gay asian pride and prejudice *
Right the spot where gay men flee to fd no-strgs fun, sun and sex. Takg a page om “Cluels, ” Booster had the bright ia to update a key Aten classic, puttg the gay Asian pri “Pri and Prejudice” — where nothg of the sort ever existed before — wh the help of “Spa Night” director Andrew Ahn. By settg his unapologetilly queer take on the eponymo gay enclave, he giv dienc who’ve never been there a taste of a place where LGBT folks aren’t at the mercy of the majory; they are the majory.
SPOTIFY’S ‘GAY PRI & PREJUDICE’ MARRI A BELOVED CLASSIC WH QUEER STORI AND SCRIPTED FICTN PODSTS
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The lghs start right out of the gate, as an off-key gay men’s chos performs the stud’s fanfare. Not all gay men are wired that way, as Yang’s more romantilly cled (and ls abdomally fed) character woefully remds him. There are plenty of gay folks who aren’t fortable at gay clubs, and to them, I always say: “You assume that everyone go out lookg for the same thg, but if you’re here and you don’t relate, there are sure to be others who feel the way you do.
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JANE ATEN MEETS MARRIAGE EQUALY GAY PRI & PREJUDICE PODST
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'FIRE ISLAND' TRAILER: 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' GO GAY WH JOEL KIM BOOSTER, BOWEN YANG
The Makg of a Homosexual Mory the Uned Stat.
'FIRE ISLAND:' THE GAY ASIAN 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' ROM-COM YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU NEED, STARRG A RIPPED JOEL KIM BOOSTER AND ADORABLE BOWEN YANG
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"ASIAN" MEN ON THE SCENE: CHALLENG TO "GAY MUNI"
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'GAY PRI & PREJUDICE' TRAILER: JSE TYLER FERGON PREVIEWS NEW JANE ATEN ADAPTATN (EXCLIVE)
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GAY PRI & PREJUDICE CREATORS ON UPDATG JANE ATEN FOR THE PODST AGE
“It’s like a gay Disney World, ” he tells , “fun for the whole fay”—except that his fn of fay is not the tradnal one. ” What Noah don’t is that the plot of Fire Island is based on Aten’s novel of 1813, though he told Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, hosts of the reigng gay podst Las Culturistas, who are also his stars Fire Island, that “we’ve got our gay Darcy! “It wasn’t until I went to Fire Island for the first time that I actually brought the book wh me to read for the first time, and I was so stck by how relevant actually felt to my experience … navigatg the weird class systems that gay men created for themselv.