Joel Kim Booster reacts to Billy Eichner’s comments about “disposable” LGBTQ content
Fire Island star Joel Kim Booster has reacted to comments Billy Eichner made last week about LGBTQ content on streaming platforms.Eichner is currently promoting his movie, Bros.
The studio-backed gay rom-com will hit theater screens later this month. Eichner thinks it is particularly significant the movie will play on the big screen.
Talking to Variety, he called the theatrical release historic compared to, “some streaming thing which feels disposable, or which is like one of a million Netflix shows.”Some commentators took this as Eichner dismissing some of the queer content on streaming platforms.Fire Island, a gay retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, set during a summer trip to the New York hotspot, was released a few months ago on Hulu.Joel Kim Booster, who stars in Fire Island, took to Twitter yesterday to give his thoughts.
He says he considers Eichner a friend who was hugely supportive of Fire Island. He also says Eichner was his first “comedy boss.”Booster said he’d been in the desert for ten days with no phone signal.
