'Bros' stars say 's time for straight people to enjoy a gay rom

Contents:

• COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT 'BROS,' THE FIRST GAY ROM- PRODUCED BY A MAJOR STUD
• 'BROS' STARS SAY 'S TIME FOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE TO ENJOY A GAY ROM

COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB

Bros: Official Clip - Gay Trma Ri. Bros: Official Clip - Gay Dner. Universal Pictur proudly prents the first romantic edy om a major stud about two gay men maybe, possibly, probably, stumblg towards love.

The LGBTQ romantic edy stars Eichner and Le Macfarlane as a gay uple navigatg the plited onle datg world, wh a few obstacl — and people — thrown along the way. “Everyone who ISN’T a homophobic weirdo should go see BROS tonight!

Watch Bros onle now by rentg the gay romantic edy on VOD through Amazon here. I was not faiar wh the other actor who played his boyiend the movie but he did a phenomenal job and was very sympathetic and portrayed asi of gay men that I do not see on film very often. “Bros, ” -wrten by and starrg Billy Eichner, has been touted as the first mastream Hollywood stud-backed rom- to feature gay men as the leads.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT 'BROS,' THE FIRST GAY ROM- PRODUCED BY A MAJOR STUD

Eichner plays Bobby Leiber, a born and bred New Yorker who hosts a queer history podst lled 11th Brick (bee as a cis whe gay man that’s probably the brick he’d have thrown at Stonewall) and is the director of the first natnal LGBTQ history mm, on the brk of fally openg s doors. While most of the characters are unrveloped, Eichner’s razor-sharp w and tic humor sh through the dialogue and suatnal edy as he skewers many aspects of gay datg culture, om Grdr hookups to obssive gym age to group sex. ” This is the guidg light of “Bros”: to show the gays as msy, to show the queer muny as more than a monolh, to have them be as loud and proud and take up as much space beg their thentic selv as possible.

However, feats s own msage of brgg queer history and queer life out of the margs when centers the love story between two cis, nventnally attractive whe gay men. Eichner is the first to pot out his privilege; early on his character ws an award at an LGBTQ gala for Bt Cis Whe Gay Man of the Year. But beg self-aware isn’t as impactful as -centerg the cis whe gay man as the lead, pecially when every other queer character the film still remas on the margs of the story.

'BROS' STARS SAY 'S TIME FOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE TO ENJOY A GAY ROM

But there's also somethg at odds wh Eichner’s missn to brg queerns, gay sex, and gay datg all s texture to mastream Hollywood stud-backed cema, while the same breath sanizg queerns to be palatable to straight culture. Bobby and Aaron discs how often straight male actors w praise for playg gay wboys, but beyond digs at both “Brokeback Mounta” and “The Power of the Dog” (directed by and starrg straight people), the only other queer film mentned is Lu Guadagno's “Call Me By Your Name” a throwaway joke about how 's the one queer movie to which all straight people pare other queer films. I didn’t want to dimish “the first major stud movie wrten by and starrg a gay man” or spoil s Rotten Tomato sre or dance on the grave of s box-office prospects.

I certaly didn’t want to attack the star of “Billy on the Street” and “Difficult People, ” two of the most succsful screen adaptatns of the gay sensibily recent memory. ”Do that make too the “homophobic weirdos” of Eichner’s nfoundg post-bomb tweet spiral or simply the silent Benedict Arnolds of his self-proclaimed march to the history books? It is emently ldable that Eichner has ma a sexually ank stud edy featurg two gay men, and that he sisted, as wgman/-star/-producer Guy Branum not, on an all-LGBTQ st.

Its laceratg send-ups of token reprentatn Hallmark Christmas movi; the “hnted hoe of gay trma” that pop culture pass off as queer history; even Eichner’s own public persona are all a potent, knowg nod to the ongog challeng of tellg LGBTQ stori — of livg LGBTQ liv — whout simply repurposg a tired, old, straight the culmatg ame of s fal act, that is, when the image of two nventnally attractive gay men kissg is posned, lerally, as the ldatory bookend to “5, 000 years of gay love stori erased om the history books. And yet, spe the affi Eichner and I share on paper — no, bee of the affi we share on paper — I reil at “Bros’” squanred privilege, bristle at s star’s attempt to hi s shortgs behd the veil of homophobia. It is the eedom to fight over, cricize, even ignore the artworks that claim to reprent — and, on the flip si, the eedom to keep makg and nsumg gay art whether straight people show up for or, when I saw the film a send time this week, at a half-full weeknight screeng at the Sunset 5, what stck me most were the loust lghs and cheers, all directed at the gayt material — the slap fight-turned-sex scene, the Bowen Yang meo, Nile Kidman’s pre-roll ad for AMC.