“It was, for me as a young gay man, to go for the very first time in my life to a place where there were no straight people, and you were just sort of able to be free, and, unencumbered - and this is me coming from New York City, which isn’t exactly a red state when it comes to gay issues - but even still, it was really powerful for me to be with some of my closest gay friends in a place where there were no straight people. Though it can be “an economically impenetrable island” with a “lot of positives and negatives,” it was a game changer for Kim Booster, the writer and star of the upcoming film Fire Island. “I think back in those days, we would shove about 16 people into a four-bedroom house.”
“Back then, I was pretty poor,” he laughs.
But in 2015, actor Joel Kim Booster probably knew very little of this (he was homeschooled after all, and jokes of his sheltered upbringing), when he landed in the gay mecca with a bunch of friends.
