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‘BROS,’ THE FIRST BIG-STUD R-RATED GAY ROM-, IS FOR EVERYONE
“Bros, ” which has been hotly anticipated as the first big-stud R-rated gay rom-, fely has universal appeal, if your universe happens to clu anyone navigatg the vagari of love, lt and generatnal change. But like any succsful edy — or movie, for that matter — “Bros” succeeds s specificy: this se, gay life and culture that are brimmg wh foibl, ntradictns, triumphs and failur jt wag to be med for ic gold. He plays Bobby Leiber, a cynil New York podster whose expertise is hidn gay histori and whose latt project is openg a mm dited to same.
No sooner is he liverg an impassned stemwr on “the erasure of gay love over centuri” than he’s cuttg to his daily life on Grdr, where the banal “Hey, what’s up? “I support them, but I don’t tst them, ” he says of his fellow gay men at one pot. One of Bobby’s funnit observatns is the untapped market for an app aimed at gay men “who jt want to talk actrs and go to sleep.
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