Celebrate Pride: check out more stories on LGBTQ+ icons and activists.It's also better than most straight romantic comedies could ever aspire to be, as Canadian viewers will soon find out since it begins streaming on Disney+ today (Disney-owned Hulu is releasing it in the United States). Written by Joel Kim Booster and directed by Andrew Ahn, Fire Island is the first romantic comedy ever released by a Hollywood studio to be exclusively created by and starring queer people. Which might not sound so monumental until one includes the part about how this contemporary adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is set at a hedonistic gay vacation destination, features an all-LGBTQ cast, includes plenty of sex, drugs and Marisa Tomei-impressions and is being released by Disney. This weekend, queers all around the world are going to sit down in their living rooms and watch … a movie adaptation of a Jane Austen novel.
Queeries is a weekly column by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queries LGBTQ art, culture and/or identity through a personal lens.įor all the horrifying ways society feels like it's moving backwards, particularly when it comes to LGBTQ people, let us all just take some Pride Month™ comfort in one thing that feels so very forward.
