After weeks of bate gay media and culture vulture circl, Logo's Fire Island is fally formally butg (after a sneak peek on VH1) on Thursday. We no longer have jt a 90-send trailer to argue over; fact, three full episos were sent…
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- “SOMETHG SPECIAL AND UNIQUE AND GAY”: YOUR FIRST LOOK AT FIRE ISLAND
- 'FIRE ISLAND' REVIEW: LOGO'S GAY REALY SERI HAS PROMISE, BUT IS TOO LOW ON DRAMA
“SOMETHG SPECIAL AND UNIQUE AND GAY”: YOUR FIRST LOOK AT FIRE ISLAND
* fire island gay reality show *
It was filmed last summer New York, and centers around a group of six gay men livg together. Castg lls were answered and Patrick McDonald was one of six gay men chosen to appear on the realy show.
Starrg six gay men, this show is sure to have everyone talkg.
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.
'FIRE ISLAND' REVIEW: LOGO'S GAY REALY SERI HAS PROMISE, BUT IS TOO LOW ON DRAMA
This is what gay men do all the time. ”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.