Jolene Jang's video: FireIsland Romcom starrying written and produced by Asian American Joel Kim Booster

What a refreshing break from reporting on Attacks on Asians for my website and a break from violent, action movies. Asian stereotypes were absent, while I think gay stereotypes were present. I am not a gay man, so I don't know how they were portrayed. I watched my first gay movie. Fire Island is a romantic comedy with 3 Asian male leads. The only person I recognized in the movie was Bowen Yan (the first Asian American on Saturday Night Live.) He was believable and seemed similiar to his SNL character. The themes that stood out to me: • Having to conform to White American standards of masculinity and attractiveness • Feelings of invisibility • Classism - big time • Microagressions towards Asian Americans ○ A White guy with an Asian fetish was doing the "guess your ethnicity game" ○ Asians men were referred to as "cute' more in a diminutive tone The concept of a marginalized group having time with others from the same group reminded me of where people feel free explore and to be there true selves without code switching because they would be an entirely gay event for the week. As a cisgendered, heterosexual, Asian American, middle-aged woman, I found this entertaining, moving and relatable. Movie content is getting more progressive and sharing more perspectives, this gives me hope. Thumbs up. I was referred to see this from a White Straight Male on linkedin. He thought I would appreciate the Asian Representation. Yes, spot on. He was right. This was fun movie is comedy starrying from and comedian and actor It is relatable from cisgendered, straight, Asian American woman. From the with and it sounds like it mirrors Booster's life. @ihatejoelkim @fayedunaway @conradricamora @fireislandmovie @hulu @Zanethan @margaret_cho @TorianMiller @scullynjames JOLENE JANG'S INFO Patreon to contribute https://www.patreon.com/jolenejang Youtube: subscribe https://www.youtube.com/c/JoleneJang/ Website: https://jolenejang.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jolenejang/ Empowered Asians Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/empoweredasians Asian Allies Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/asianallies