The protagonist of Nana Mensah’s Queen of Glory (in theaters July 15), played by Mensah herself, is a Columbia doctoral student who’s all set to blow up her life and leave New York to join her married lover when her mother dies, sending her back up to the Bronx and the Ghanaian community where she grew up. Despite its gay rom-com billing, Fire Island (on Hulu June 3) is as much about the relationship between two friends (played by Joel Kim Booster, who wrote the film’s script, and Bowen Yang) struggling to fit into a community that reflexively treats them as invisible. If you’re looking for something for the youngs, this summer has plenty of fodder about 20- and 30-somethings floundering in the world.
