Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer.
Contents:
- THE PERFECT DATE SHOWS JT HOW BADLY ROM-COMS STILL TREAT THEIR GAY BT FRIENDS
- 4 EASY AND ROMANTIC GAY DATE IAS:
THE PERFECT DATE SHOWS JT HOW BADLY ROM-COMS STILL TREAT THEIR GAY BT FRIENDS
Inter Boyiend Noah Centeo’s latt Netflix rom-, The Perfect Date, is full of the faiar clichés, cludg the sneaky soulmate hidg pla sight, the histrnic breakup at prom, and another rom- staple that isn’t all that fortg: the Gay Bt know this trope.
The Gay Bt Friend is the sikick who exists for edic relief and solely to advance the plot of their straight BFF.
4 EASY AND ROMANTIC GAY DATE IAS:
The ’00s brought Christian Cluels, Stanford Sex and the Cy, and Brandon Easy the current post-femist, supposedly woke rom- rurgence era, which I am eternally grateful for, the Gay Bt Friend trope endur. Wh the box-office succs of 2018’s Love, Simon, a perfect teen romance that fally starred a gay lead character, or the upg Billy Eichner gay rom- produced by Judd Apatow, there is some progrs beg ma, but that don’t mean straight rom-s no longer have to be held acuntable for their gay characters.
In Set It Up, one of Netflix’s many 2018 rom-rom offergs, he plays Charlie’s (Glen Powell) gay roommate Dunn. He’s a gay jock. That’s the films that do away wh one of rom-’s most persistent quali (whe leads), we’re still left wh one big regrsive plot pot (unrveloped gay sikicks).