This isn't DiGiorno, it's the struggle

At a time when being gay could cause you to be arrested, Bill and Angelo, fell in love and began their lives together by renting a home in Fire Island where they could escape on weekends.

They soon built a home and life together as part of a migration of gay men from NYC that was beginning to happen. It was a quieter time, decades before Stonewall or the heyday of the "gay 70's".

As time passed, they helped to build a growing gay community there, where men were free to be, share, and discuss life. They would reminisce about the days when sharply dressed gay men went to the Bon Soir to hear a 20-something Barbra Streisand.

The cute stranger showed up at the doorstep of your family owned guitar shop at exactly 9:00 am on the dot.

There was so much hope in his eyes, you didn’t have the heart to tell him the store wasn’t open for business. Instead, you found yourself unlocking the door and greeting him with a smile.

Cameron was never prompt for anything. It wasn’t that he didn’t care, it was just that his brain wasn’t wired to adhere to a strict schedule. And perhaps he struggled with time blindness. Just a little.

This morning, however, he was up bright and early. Guitar clutched in hand, he stood outside the quaint little guitar shop that read Pacific Guitar. The hours on the door said 9:00 am–5:00 pm. He was five minutes early.

He didn’t expect the shopkeep to be so beautiful. The moment the door swung open, everything he’d been planning to say completely dissipated, like a cloud of dust floating away. Nothing coherent came out of his mouth as he responded to your greeting. Just the word “strings.”

Your brow furrowed adorably. “I’m sorry?” Unsure of what exactly he was asking.

The stranger’s ears turned red. “Uh, s-sorry. I came to, um, see if you possibly had strings. For a guitar. I mean…obviously they’d be for a guitar. Since this is a guitar store. And I’m literally holding a guitar.” Nice going, Cam. You sound so intelligent.

"Preparing [for the role of Nikki] was really fun. We got to watch a lot of fun movies, and kind of pick and choose, like a puzzle, what we wanted in the film. Moments that we took inspiration from, and made them our own." — Inde Navarrette for Fandango "We watched Get Out, and focused on a lot of the moments where characters are showing an emotion underneath but saying something completely different [on the surface], and how horrific that is. There's a scene where [Nikki] is saying, "no", and there is a [similar] scene in Get Out [which we took inspiration from]." — Inde Navarrette for A Shot Magazine Obsession (2026) Dir. Curry Barker Get Out (2017) Dir. Jordan Peele

Remarkably Bright Creatures dir. Olivia Newman | 2026