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TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
—Emma SpecterFire Island (2022) Matt Rogers, Zane Phillips, Tomas Matos, Joel Kim Booster, Torian Miller, and Bowen Yang Fire Courty Everett CollectnThis (very loose) adaptatn of Jane Aten’s Pri and Prejudice, om director Andrew Ahn and wrer and star Joel Kim Booster, follows a group of gay iends who take their yearly summer trip to inic queer vatn statn Fire Island, only to fd that their days the sun may be numbered. Chartg the forbidn romance between a peasant girl servg as a maid to a wealthy heirs through a seri of ntradictory, Rashomon-style perspectiv, The Handmain is a meticuloly librated erotic thriller for the ag.
Directed by Barry Jenks and adapted om a play by Tarell Alv McCraney, Moonlight serv as a powerful g-of-age story across three chapters the life of a gay Black man growg up an impoverished rner of Miami.