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Contents:

• EVERYTHG WE KNOW ABOUT FIRE ISLAND, A NEW GAY PRI AND PREJUDICE ADAPTATN
• “SOMETHG SPECIAL AND UNIQUE AND GAY”: YOUR FIRST LOOK AT FIRE ISLAND
• 'FIRE ISLAND' TRAILER: 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' GO GAY WH JOEL KIM BOOSTER, BOWEN YANG
• FIRE ISLAND ST: MEET THE SIX HUNKS OM TV’S NEW GAY REALY SERI
• ‘FIRE ISLAND’: MEET THE POWER TR BEHD THE SUMMER’S SWEETT, FUNNIT GAY ROM-COM
• WEEKEND STREAM: ‘FIRE ISLAND,’ THE GAY REALY SHOW YOU CAN’T AVOID THIS SUMMER
• ‘FIRE ISLAND’ STARS ON THE SRCY OF GAY ROM-COMS AND NOT SUGARATG THE STORY
• BEFORE STONEWALL, CHERRY GROVE: HOW A BEACH TOWN BEME A GAY 'SAFE HAVEN'

EVERYTHG WE KNOW ABOUT FIRE ISLAND, A NEW GAY PRI AND PREJUDICE ADAPTATN

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.

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

It’s funny to see how when gay men are together and we are the majory, how we discrimate and divi ourselv even further. ” Rogers echoed those sentiments, quippg: “I’m out there beg a full gay man on that beach, and that wh s maladi and succs. “The tth is [the village of] the P was very closeted and origally envisned as a straight muny, ” she ’d also like her podst to help dismantle the stereotype of Fire Island beg a haven strictly for whe cisgenr gay men, notg: “The tth is, is filled wh women and trans folks, particularly [the village of] Cherry Grove.

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

Are played out the ty, remote gay muni as well, ” Rothschild said. To kick off Pri Month 2022, Hulu is releasg a new feature film about the famo gay vatn statn, Fire Island.

This only adds to the pertency of this film, as a majory of queer media only foc on whe gay characters. A Gay Retellg of Jane Aten's Pri and Prejudice.

One of the most important tails about Fire Island is the fact that this film is set to be a retellg and reworked gay adaptatn of the famo Jane Aten novel, film, and stageplay Pri and Prejudice. Kim Booster plays Noah, who is the Elizabeth Ben of the film, who falls love wh Will (played by How To Get Away Wh Murr'sConrad Rimora), the token Asian om a rich whe gays' group.

FIRE ISLAND ST: MEET THE SIX HUNKS OM TV’S NEW GAY REALY SERI

Margaret Cho plays Er, Matt Rogers (Yang’s -host of the legendary edy podst Las Culturistas) plays Le, Tomás Matos plays Keegan, Torian Miller portrays Max, Nick Adams (known for his extensive Broadway reer) plays Cooper (one of the rich whe gays who look down on Noah’s iends), Zane Philips plays Dex, Michael Graceffa is Rhys, Aidan Wharton is Bran, Peter Smh portrays Mos, and Bradley Gibson plays Johnny. Yang is the show’s first-ever Che-Amerin and third openly-gay st member and is the perfect addn to Fire Island for his unique and drop-ad hilar edic style and actg chops. 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.

‘FIRE ISLAND’: MEET THE POWER TR BEHD THE SUMMER’S SWEETT, FUNNIT GAY ROM-COM

”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.

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”“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.

WEEKEND STREAM: ‘FIRE ISLAND,’ THE GAY REALY SHOW YOU CAN’T AVOID THIS SUMMER

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. ”“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…. A morn take on the classic Jane Aten novel “Pri and Prejudice, ” “Fire Island” foc on two gay bt iends, Noah (Booster) and Howie (Yang), who take a trip to the P, a hamlet on New York’s Fire Island that’s a hotspot for queer culture.

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

“I want people — pecially gay men, pecially queer people — to walk away om the movie happy that they’re gay, ” Booster told Vany Fair. “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… I want people to e away om this movie feelg the joy of our experienc and that ’s not all tragic.

Cast & crewUser reviewsTrivia2022R1h 45mA group of queer bt iends gather Fire Island P for their annual week of love and lghter, but a sudn change of events might make this their last summer gay paradise.

A group of queer bt iends gather Fire Island P for their annual week of love and lghter, but a sudn change of events might make this their last summer gay paradise. A group of queer bt iends gather Fire Island P for their annual week of love and lghter, but a sudn change of events might make this their last summer gay productn, box office & pany Vios12More like thisReview A gay twist on "Pri & Prejudice""It is a tth universally acknowledged, that a sgle man posssn of a good fortune, mt be want of a wife. " The openg words of Jane Aten's "Pri and Prejudice" and this script is a gay sp off of that novel.

BEFORE STONEWALL, CHERRY GROVE: HOW A BEACH TOWN BEME A GAY 'SAFE HAVEN'

The romantic edy follows a tight-kn group of queer iends over the urse of a weeklong sojourn on Fire Island, a legendary gay holiday statn. “Especially a place like Fire Island, where sudnly there are no straight people around to opprs and we have to fd ways to opprs one another, we recreate the artificial class systems and other hierarchi that exist the rt of the world but are jt magnified and felt so much more viscerally a place where ’s only gay people.

“The movie talks about how Fire Island has been this place where gay men have historilly gone to feel safe, and asks what you do when you feel unsafe there, among your ‘own kd, ’” she said. Part of s power is that skillfully balanc the more ser them wh a distctly gay sense of humor: Be on the lookout for a hysteril scene volvg the game Heads Up!