Indeed, Cho’s lesbian character Erin is the doyenne of queers in the film that stars Booster as Noah, a handsome young gay man who dons his Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth Bennet persona and sidelines his Fire Island hook-up plans until he helps his friend Howie (Bowen Yang) get laid. “Do I get to be their guest?” she self-queried, perhaps picturing a dramatic entrance in a wide-brimmed hat. When veteran comic Margaret Cho was approached for the rom-com Fire Island - from writer Joel Kim Booster and director Andrew Ahn, with a cast of queer Asian men - she was proud to lean into what she calls her “Joan Collins phase.”
