Gay rom- 'Bros' begs filmg NYC :: Bay Area Reporter

Contents:

• GAY 'BROS' HANGOUT - BOXERS NYC
• BROS’ PERFECTLY TUNED ROMANTIC EDY BUCKL UNR THE WEIGHT OF THE GAY ROM- TONE
• GAY ROM- 'BROS' BEGS FILMG NYC
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• CRAFTG A ROM-COM THAT’S TE TO 21ST-CENTURY GAY LIFE

GAY 'BROS' HANGOUT - BOXERS NYC

The NYC gaybros is a muny server meant for posive, iendly, social teractns between and is meant to be welg to all. Bros’ perfectly tuned romantic edy buckl unr the weight of the gay rom- tone.

It’s “the first gay romantic edy om a major stud featurg an entirely LGBTQ prcipal st, ” wh Eichner beg touted as “the first openly gay man to wre and star a major stud film. Their meet-cute, amidst a swirlg vortex of vogueg club gays, feels like the proper 21st-century queer versn of a NYC love story. Add a sre by Marc Shaiman and a bounty of Nat Kg Cole needle-drops, and you’d thk this Gay When Harry Met Sally would be off and nng.

BROS’ PERFECTLY TUNED ROMANTIC EDY BUCKL UNR THE WEIGHT OF THE GAY ROM- TONE

The moments where they s around a nference table and rotely poe queer talkg pots feel as dry and unspired as if the Senate sequenc om the Star Wars prequels took place an echo chamber of gay stereotyp.

Dpe the actor’s volatile watchabily, Bobby emerg ls as a real person than a walkg Twter rant of everythg that’s wrong wh gay culture. That clus, but is not limed to: straight actors playg gay people; the edic e of “the F slur”; the film dtry’s palizatn on queer trma; and the problematic nature of Bohemian Rhapsody beg about a gay in a straight relatnship.

GAY ROM- 'BROS' BEGS FILMG NYC

You n easily image the one-note meathead Aaron uld be, but Macfarlane really plays the pathos of this guy who’s lived a life straddlg his privilege as a straight-passg mascule gay man wh his sire to feel ls like an outsir to gay culture. He’s easily the most plete and pellg character the st, and his loss and victori are the emotnal high pots of a film that’s at s bt when ’s playg out the classic rom- beats om a gay perspective.

It’s a satisfyg endg, and one that reveals Eichner’s ultimate amg of this film as a long-awaed troductn om queer culture to mastream cema, a Gay Rey handg off a rabow-lored lightsaber to Le Skywalker. In that ntext, ’s hard to flt Eichner for treatg this “first major stud gay rom-” wh the utmost level of rponsibily. While Bros often feels overstuffed wh ias, a treatise on Why Gay People Derve To Be a Rom-Com rather than jt a really good rom- wh gay people, also feels exactly le wh Bobby’s-slash-Billy’s chief goal: “I wanted to wre about my world, my life, my iends.

Soon after gay Twter lmed down about the Billy Eichner feature film project Bros, which will feature an all-LGBT st, star Le MacFarlane posted a few tight T-shirt thirst trap photos on his Instagram acunt on the set as the film began shootg New York Cy. Bros' storyle is about two gay men wh mment problems who attempt to form a relatnship. Eichner announced that the stg for this gay-themed romantic edy would be diverse, wh LGBT actors and productn members as well; and a few straight people, of urse.

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

McFarlane's first recurrg gay character as Sttie Wenl the TV seri Brothers and Sisters (2006 to 2011) won dience and cril praise. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTBilly Eichner plays a moody podster who has sworn off relatnships, but jt might fd himself one anyway, this gay romantic edy.

”Yet, through a quirk of fate — bed wh a century of ertia — “Bros, ” a semisweet, sexually ank queer valente, mak Eichner the grimacg, skeptil face of the first major stud romantic edy to star two adult gay men: the actor Le Macfarlane, who me out publicly 2008, and Eichner himself, who -wrote the script wh the director Nicholas Stoller (“Fettg Sarah Marshall, ” “Neighbors”). As a meta-joke wh the movie, Eichner’s character reils when asked to create a gay rom- wh mass appeal. Bobby blam beg sgle on a lany of universal laments that dovetail wh queer-specific grip, say, guys on Grdr who type, “Mt see pic of ass, ” forcg him to fetch a rg light and a promo party for a new app lled Zellweger (“For gays who want to talk about actrs and go to bed, ” his iend, played by Guy Branum, scrib), Bobby meets Aaron (Macfarlane) and dismiss the hunky lawyer as yet another gay paradox: a man who’s both strappgly solid and emotnally vaporo.

Bobby is a battle-srred veteran of 20th-century homophobia sufferg 21st-century whiplash. ”The scene ntued, as Bobby walked through the exhib, liverg a lecture that enpassed homophobia, Nazis and, eventually, AIDS.

CRAFTG A ROM-COM THAT’S TE TO 21ST-CENTURY GAY LIFE

It isn’t exactly the first major-stud gay rom-, that rabow lrel probably go to 2018’s “Love Simon, ” distributed by 20th Century Fox. Which means that the movie shoulrs two rponsibili: to liver a edy as r and rnchy as fans of Stoller, and Judd Apatow, a producer, would expect, and to te viewers, gay and straight, on the past and prent of queer liv and relatnships. ”But two s the entertament dtry had tght him that as a gay man, the Tom Hanks rol were not available to him.