'Fire Island' trailer: 'Pri and Prejudice' go gay wh Joel Kim Booster, Bowen Yang

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Durg the trip, a nng joke beme that he would make "the gay Pri and Prejudice. As Searchlight Pictur scrib, the film is an "unapologetic, morn day rom- showsg a diverse, multicultural examatn of queerns and romance" centerg on two bt iends (Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang) who set out to have an unfettable summer 's everythg we know about the From Town & CountryJoel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang lead the Yang and Joel Kim Booster Fire ParkBooster stars as Noah, a "happily, fiantly sgle" gay man, and Yang stars as his bt iend Howie. It’s funny to see how when gay men are together and we are the majory, how we discrimate and divi ourselv even further.

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Fire Island is referenced a lot popular culture, for example the Fire Island TV seri and a new gay Pri and Prejudice adaptatn set on Fire Island. While some may only have bee aware of Fire Island when the gay rom- me out last year, the popular queer mec actually has a long and rich untold stori of this formerly-sleepy beach town turned gay party spot is the subject of Fdg Fire Island, a new podst by the Broadway Podst seri was created, executive produced and narrated by Hot Tak & Deep Div host Js Rothschild, who was also one of the foundg wrers of Autostraddle, and boasts terviews wh Fire Island stars Margret Cho, Joel Kim Booster, and Matt RogersFdg Fire Island will take listeners on a journey through the history of Fire Island, om the hamlets of Cherry Grove and The P to dg fueled parti and moments of queer joy.

“As a native New Yorker, Fire Island was trsilly formative to my inty as a gay person, ” Rothschild said. Twter Thks So ›Fire Island's Joel Kim Booster on the Toxic Legacy of 'No Asians' ›18 Nu Beach Every Gay Man Should Vis ›'Fire Island's Conrad Rimora Gets Married To Peter Wley Jensen ›.