His often hilarious film, directed by Andrew Ahn and loosely based on Pride and Prejudice, expertly explores this divide (between class, race, sexuality, and more) in a way many queer films tend to avoid, and for understandable reasons.
Both versions are more or less correct depending on your perspective, but ultimately it is what you make it. Joel Kim Booster, the writer and star of the new Hulu film Fire Island, wrote a wonderful autobiographical piece for Penguin Random House, in which he describes the titular gay destination spot:įire Island is widely known throughout the gay community as one of two things: a Mecca-like summer destination full of gorgeous architecture and bronzed hard bodies, or a nightmarish summer stock production of all our worst impulses as modern gay men: racism, substance abuse, and depraved sexual activity.
