don’t entirely fit the brief although, Booster, Rogers, and Matos are all deducted a point for being suitably in shape for considered “outsiders”. Fire Island, an impossibly gay village off the South Shore of Long Island, has long been claimed as the go-to spot for queer vacationing by the wealthy, enviably sculpted, and very, very white subsect of gay men.
In a glorious take on Jane Austen’s classic Pride & Prejudice, Fire Island sets itself at the titular location for a week of intended debauchery for Noah (Booster) and his besties-cum-chosen family, Howie ( Bowen Yang), Luke ( Matt Rogers), Keegan ( Tomás Matos), and Max ( Torian Miller). Now, I’m really not trying to take this to an overtly serious place when the film at hand is such a well-constructed comedy, but it can’t be denied how important Fire Island is to so many community members – even if linked to a film that feels as if it could be so fluffy and lightly digestible. Of course, next to this being a film that will find its mass appeal with queer audiences, it’s written, directed, produced and fronted by men of Asian descent, a demographic so often undervalued and underrepresented in queer media.
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Whilst I’m certainly not suggesting that Fire Island won’t earn some crossover appeal with straight audiences – hell, I even saw this movie with a straight guy – queer audiences are sure to wholeheartedly embrace Joel Kim Booster‘s deliciously funny, at times savage comedy in a manner that’s entirely personal and significantly unique compared to general audiences.