Kelvin and Keefe at a gay resort sometime after Season 3, watching the Nude Dude Review.
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Men's bodies, gay romance, and queer codes in movies and tv, especially "The Righteous Gemstones"
Kelvin and Keefe at a gay resort sometime after Season 3, watching the Nude Dude Review.
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Context: A 2022 movie, Fire Island, is a romantic comedy about guys looking for love (and sex) at the world-famous gay resort. In 2023, a horror movie with the same title appeared, for audiences that have no idea that the 2022 movie exists, or that Fire Island is a gay resort.
The blurb: "The perfect summer vacation quickly spirals out of control for a group of friends on the infamous, picturesque party getaway of Fire Island as they find themselves caught in a web of sex, lies and cold blooded murder." Any idea that gay people exist here?
First, let's look at the Official Trailer:
Scene 2: Establishing shot of the Fire Island ferry, while sinister music plays. We see an American flag and a Pride flag. What kinda flag is that, Mabel? I never seen such a thing.
Scene 3: They move into their house. More sinister music. Late at night, Man #2 says "I have to take care of myself. This is the best way I can breathe. This weekend is the last fucking thing I wanted to do, but..."
Meanwhile, Woman #1 and #2 are kissing. The wives are having a lesbian affair!
Cut to morning, with everyone dancing around the kitchen, overjoyed to be cooking breakfast. Man #2 and Woman #2 hug and start to kiss. Man #1 sits on the porch, talking to Woman #1. I guess the lesbian affair is over. They're all back to being heterosexual couples again.
Scene 5: Night. Woman #2 awakens to an empty bed and calls for Man #2 (I assume, although the name she calls, Dan, is not in the cast list). Lights flash on and off.
Cut to daytime. Man #2 and Woman #2 go into a house, yelling "Hello? Hi?"
Now it's night again. Man #1 looks out the window at something scary. I'll bet he's responsible for the murders.
Scene 6: Old guy dressed as a hunter, in the woods, saying "Look at all this fucking b.s." or "these fucking deer." (I can't tell which: the dialogue is very soft, and the sinister music very, very loud.)
Night again. Man #2 and Woman #2 are in town. They see a figure in a deer mask. They run on the beach, then into a house. The detective, who is there for some reason, pulls a gun. Then it's morning, and they're running upstairs.
Scene 7: A split-second shot of a man and a woman dancing (wait...on pause, it's a butch/femme gay couple). Cut to the femme one in the bathroom, with his throat slashed.
Woman #1 wakes up in bed, wondering where Man #1 is. He's on the beach, looking sinister. Because he just killed a femme gay guy? She gets up in her underwear and loads a gun. The end.
Quick, how many of these people are gay? Man #1 (played by Conor Paolo, top photo) is married to Woman #1. Man #2 (played by Jonathan Bennett, second photo) is gay, and overcoming a recent tragedy. Woman #2 is a lesbian, and in a relationship with someone who isn't on the car trip, so you'd think it was two heterosexual couples driving to Fire Island. Plus her girlfriend looks like Woman #1, so you can't tell from the trailer that she exists. You think the wives are having a lesbian affair.
The question is, why? Why make a movie where 3 out of 5 protagonists are gay, then try very hard to hide it?
Let's check Myles Clohessy. He has 16 writing and 20 directing credits listed on the IMDB, but most are "upcoming." Also 41 acting credits, but only one gay role, in The Last Ferry. He plays an ex-Marine who murders his boyfriend during a weekend in Fire Island.
Nude photos of Myles Clohessy after the break
Kelvin: Keefe is a good teacher. He's done everything: oral, anal top, anal bottom...
BJ: Anything with...
Kelvin: 69, frottage, split roasting, intefemoral...
BJ: Anything with...
Keefe: Bondage, S&M, CBT, WS, Princeton Rub...
BJ: Anything with women?
Kelvin: Gross! No, of course not!
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