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    How the queer summer rom-com 'Fire Island' found new meaning in 'Pride and Prejudice'

    by Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times Jun 06, 2022 4 minutes
    Joel Kim Booster poses for a portrait at the Virgin Hotel on May 10, 2022, in Chicago.

    Jennifer Ehle. Keira Knightley. And now, Joel Kim Booster: Into the pantheon of "Pride and Prejudice" adaptations, queer rom-com "Fire Island" has arrived to give Jane Austenites a summer to remember — and the next great Elizabeth Bennet.

    Set on the titular resort off of Long Island, "Fire Island" (streaming now on Hulu) stars Booster as Noah, a happily single, perpetually broke New Yorker who finds more than he anticipated during one last getaway with his friends to the sun-soaked LGBTQ mecca: an attraction to a prickly lawyer from Los Angeles (Conrad Ricamora) who makes his blood boil and his pulse quicken.

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