Fire Island: Why We’re Exced About This New Gay Rom-Com

Contents:

• “SOMETHG SPECIAL AND UNIQUE AND GAY”: YOUR FIRST LOOK AT FIRE ISLAND
• THE FIRE ISLAND ST AND CREW ON THE GAY ROM-’S SIGNIFINCE
• ‘FIRE ISLAND’ STARS ON THE SRCY OF GAY ROM-COMS AND NOT SUGARATG THE STORY
• FIRE ISLAND: WHY WE’RE EXCED ABOUT THIS NEW GAY ROM-COM
• 'FIRE ISLAND' TRAILER: 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' GO GAY WH JOEL KIM BOOSTER, BOWEN YANG
• POLAROIDS OM THE SET OF GAY ROM- FIRE ISLAND ARE A NNECTN TO THE BEACH GETAWAY'S PAST
• ‘FIRE ISLAND’ DELIVERS GAY ROM COM SUMMER FUN WH A JANE ATEN TWIST
• JOEL KIM BOOSTER DON’T NEED GAY ROM-COM ‘FIRE ISLAND’ TO BE PALATABLE FOR ‘CERTA PEOPLE’
• BOWEN YANG SAYS HE 'LUCKED OUT' ON 'GENI' NEW GAY ROM-COM 'FIRE ISLAND'

“SOMETHG SPECIAL AND UNIQUE AND GAY”: YOUR FIRST LOOK AT FIRE ISLAND

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. This is what gay men do all the time.

THE FIRE ISLAND ST AND CREW ON THE GAY ROM-’S SIGNIFINCE

”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.

‘FIRE ISLAND’ STARS ON THE SRCY OF GAY ROM-COMS AND NOT SUGARATG THE STORY

(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. Was there a gay Amber Alert we all somehow missed?

FIRE ISLAND: WHY WE’RE EXCED ABOUT THIS NEW GAY ROM-COM

”“Sometim if you’re gay, you don’t thk you n be classist or racist, ” Cho tells me between tak. ”Or, as Booster puts : “What happens when gay men are put together on an island and there are no straight people to opprs ?

”“There is this ia that ’s only for whe mcle gays, ” Booster says, of the P—or for gay men wh money. Fire Island is the exceptn to the le of our liv, the same way that a gay romantic edy wh four Asian Amerin stars is an exceptn to the le of Hollywood.

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

”“I want people—pecially gay men, pecially queer people—to walk away om the movie happy that they’re gay, ” Booster says.

“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….

POLAROIDS OM THE SET OF GAY ROM- FIRE ISLAND ARE A NNECTN TO THE BEACH GETAWAY'S PAST

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‘FIRE ISLAND’ DELIVERS GAY ROM COM SUMMER FUN WH A JANE ATEN TWIST

He really r about the gay havens and gay spac. Which might not sound so monumental until one clus the part about how this ntemporary adaptatn of Pri and Prejudice is set at a hedonistic gay vatn statn, featur an all-LGBTQ st, clus plenty of sex, dgs and Marisa Tomei-imprsns and is beg released by Disney.

JOEL KIM BOOSTER DON’T NEED GAY ROM-COM ‘FIRE ISLAND’ TO BE PALATABLE FOR ‘CERTA PEOPLE’

The Ben sisters bee a chosen fay of gay men headg to Fire Island for their annual week-long adventure.

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My dream is to be rich enough to create a sort of gay birthright for queers of lour om red stat to vis Fire Island so they get to experience that every now and aga.

BOWEN YANG SAYS HE 'LUCKED OUT' ON 'GENI' NEW GAY ROM-COM 'FIRE ISLAND'

So like Big En, Trick, Mambo Italiano, Adam & Steve or any gay die rom- I was vourg at the time.