Yang told TODAY, “They come in with preconceived notions about intimacy or how they relate to other queer people and whether or not they belong in a queer space.”

It is whatever you make of it.”Ī remix of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” the film “Fire Island” - streaming on Hulu on June 3 - follows five friends taking their annual pilgrimage for one week. “You can have a wild night or you can sit at home and play board games with your friends if you want. “It’s choose your own adventure,” Booster told TODAY of the actual place, where the movie was also filmed. But here in this film, the creators manage not only to capture the essence of the island on film, they do it well.

They can’t possibly capture my fabulous life on film! In my experience, gay men tend to have a proclivity to hate the work of other gay men (unless they’re maybe a drag queen), and even I can fall victim to a jealous eye-roll now and again. I admit I went into “Fire Island” secretly wanting it to hate it.