Huge news for ginger lovers: Red Hot are in their final day of crowdfunding for their upcoming photography project, Red Hot: Fire Island, a 2025 photo calendar full of pictures of ginger guys wearing very little (if anything at all), having fun on the beach.
Unlike standard calendars that might have a seasonal pumpkin for October, or a robin for December, Red Hot: Fire Island inhabits a world of perpetual summer. “We wanted this calendar to be a fantasy escape to a ginger, gay vacation heaven,” says Red Hot creator and photographer Thomas Knights. “Fire Island in the winter is not a thing!”
Since 2013, Knights has been using Red Hot’s elevated photography projects to reassure the world that redheads *are* sexy, a mission statement we can all get behind. With this calendar, he also captures the joyful frolic that’s often missing in typical thirst traps.
“Everyone is so serious on instagram,” he says. “I’m always trying to get the models to smile and laugh and make it look like we’ve just caught them a moment where they’ve let their guard down. I often do this by cracking jokes on set and making a fool of myself. Anything to get a natural laugh – it’s so much more sexy than a self aware pose.”
But the calendar shoot did come with one occupational hazard. “We used a tremendous amount of sunscreen. It’s counter intuitive to put a redhead in hot sun, but the hair pops and looks amazing against the blue sky.”
Crowdfunding for Red Hot: Fire Island ends at 6:15 BST today on Kickstarter. Pledge support here.
