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- ROM COMS WILL (FALLY!) GET GAYER 2022
- 'BROS' STARS SAY 'S TIME FOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE TO ENJOY A GAY ROM
ROM COMS WILL (FALLY!) GET GAYER 2022
The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, this is the first film by a major Hollywood stud to foc on a gay teenage romance. The dark twist when her parents send her to a gay nversn mp where she, ironilly, begs to tly accept herself.
But when he meets Ellt, an openly gay stunt, he lls everythg he once knew to qutn. Why uldn't a gay uple be prented wh the same happs and playfulns to their relatnship? Throughout the years, the lack of reprentatn rom s has tght me that the sort of dreamy accints will never happen to wasn’t until *very* recently that we saw an flux of mastream films centered around LGBTQ+ characters at all, which is great… that most of them still foc on the drama or the heartache that n e wh beg stance, thk about the number of gay films characterized by tragedy.
In recent years, crics have lled this the “bury your gays” trope, where queer movi and shows (like Brokeback Mounta) saw one of the ma characters die—a tradn that dat back to late 19th century lerature. ” But this year, rom s aren’t jt makg a eback—they’re gettg a whole lot gayer, whout tragedy or g out servg as their fg April 29, Hulu will drop the teen edy Csh, which centers around an aspirg artist named Paige (Rowan Blanchard) who tri to make a move on her csh, Gabriella (Isabella Ferreira) by jog the school’s track team.
'BROS' STARS SAY 'S TIME FOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE TO ENJOY A GAY ROM
Wh an all-female love triangle, POC actrs and queer wrers behd the scen, Csh is a landmark release for Hollywood, and ’s not the only one that’s set to make Eichner (who you might know for his bge-worthy Billy on the Street sketch) has bee the first openly gay man to wre and star his own major stud film, Bros, which is set for release on Augt 12. Meanwhile, the edy—which follows two gay men “maybe, possibly, probably, stumblg toward love”—is the first to hire an entirely LGBTQ+ prcipal st, even for the heterosexual rol (wh Eichner, Le Macfarlane, Jim Rash and more roundg out the st) we're not stoppg there. This season will mark the return of fan-favore gay character Omar (played by Omar Ayo).
Fox's 9-1-1: Lone Star, which featur trans actor Brian Michael Smh as well as the fan-favore gay uple TK (Ronen Rubste) and Carlos (Rafael L. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, the show centers on Victor, the new kid town, as he navigat g out and fallg love. And yet, for s, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people rarely ever saw displays of affectn.
It may appear quat now, when we have TV seri like Hulu’s Love, Victor (about a Latx teen explorg sexual fluidy) or Netflix’s Bondg (about sex work and alternative sexualy), but the great gay panic set off by Ellen DeGener g out on her s 1997 was a bombshell that didn’t necsarily nvce the works that they’d open the gat to LGBTQ experienc. Luckily Will & Grace buted 1998 and the groundbreakg NBC seri nvced many that gay people might not be so toxic (and wouldn’t sre off advertisers) — so much so that Vice Print Joe Bin later creded wh changg his md about same-sex marriage.