“Somethg Special and Unique and Gay”: Your First Look at Fire Island | Vany Fair

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

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

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

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

A Gay Retellg of Jane Aten's Pri and Prejudice.

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

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. 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.

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

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

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.

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

Was there a gay Amber Alert we all somehow missed?