Knowing the history will certainly add to your appreciation of the film but it works on its own. More recently, Jack Parlett has written Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise (2022) published by Hanover Square Press. Duke University Press published a revised edition with a new preface in 2014. It was first published by Beacon Press in 1993. The historical significance of Fire Island has been documented by Esther Newton in a book called Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian Town. This is a contemporary American rom-com featuring gay men vacationing on Fire Island in the state of New York. The setting, however, is not rural England of the 19 th century. Booster has also written the script based on Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice (1813). If you loved watching Joel Kim Booster’s stand-up comedy special Psychosexual (2022), you might enjoy his performance in the film Fire Island (2022) that is currently streaming on Hotstar.
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