Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Is Fire Island the Gay Rom-Com We've Been Waiting For?
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🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This month, in honor of Pride, we’re bringing you extra episodes of Outward.
This week, hosts Christina Cauterucci, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Bryan Lowder dig into the big gay movie of summer 2022: Fire Island. Directed by Andrew Ahn and written by Joel Kim Booster, who also appears in the film, Fire Island explores the magic of queer spaces like the titular enclave—along with the class and race disparities that so often beset them. The film, which also stars Bowen Yang, Margaret Cho, and Conrad Ricamora, is a gay resetting of Pride and Prejudice. Does it succeed? The hosts discuss this, and much more, in spoiler-filled detail.
This podcast was produced by June Thomas.
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| 0:27.2 | All right, y'all know that on outward, we cannot resist talking about the emerging and fraught |
| 0:33.0 | genre of a validly gay rom-con. |
| 0:36.3 | And so, of course, we had to do a special five-month episode about Fire Island, |
| 0:40.7 | the new Hulu movie from director Andrew On and writer, |
| 0:44.5 | star Joel Kim Booster. |
| 0:46.7 | If the title doesn't immediately conjure certain images and maybe anxieties for you, |
| 0:52.2 | Fire Island is a thin barrier island up the coast of New York that has for decades |
| 0:56.3 | been a storied summer retreat for queer people. |
| 0:58.9 | It is mysterious and beautiful, and there are a lot of overly familiar deer wondering around |
| 1:04.0 | for some reason. But it is also trouble by the sorts of class and race disparities |
| 1:08.8 | that beset so many of our queer spaces. |
| 1:11.8 | The film, which also stars Bo and Yang, Margaret Cho, and Conrad Rickomora, among others, |
| 1:16.7 | attempts to address these issues through a very gay resetting of pride and prejudice. |
| 1:22.0 | But as I succeed, we'll discuss all of that in spoiler-filled detail. |
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