“I want people - especially gay men, especially queer people - to walk away from the movie happy that they’re gay,” Joel Kim Booster revealed. But not all the vacationers are pleased to see the arrival of the ragtag bunch. As they party with friends they meet two other, wealthier, holidaymakers Will (Conrad Ricamora) and Charlie (James Scully) and flirtations reach fever pitch.
Fire Island sees gay best friends Noah (Joel Kim Booster) and Howie (Bowen Yang) take a trip to The Pines, a hamlet on New York’s Fire Island that’s a hotspot for queer culture.