Billy Eichner dropped the hilar new trailer for his upg gay rom- BROS starrg Eichner himself and Le Macfarlane.
Contents:
- ROM COMS WILL (FALLY!) GET GAYER 2022
- 'BROS' STARS SAY 'S TIME FOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE TO ENJOY A GAY ROM
- FUNNY: TRAILER FOR THE UPG GAY ROM-COM BROS
ROM COMS WILL (FALLY!) GET GAYER 2022
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. 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.
'BROS' STARS SAY 'S TIME FOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE TO ENJOY A GAY ROM
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.
The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. It stars Nick Robson as Simon, a closeted gay high school stunt stgglg wh his hidn sexualy and a sense of beg nstantly out of place.
What's more, per Inpennt, Love, Simon broke ground as the first gay rom- to be produced by a major stud. In this film, a group of iends embarks on an excg week-long vatn to Fire Island, one of the most popular gay statns wh a few hours of New York, which they will be meetg up wh their iend Er, jt like they do every year.
FUNNY: TRAILER FOR THE UPG GAY ROM-COM BROS
In this movie by Peter Paige, the dience meets Sam (Jake Borelli), a young gay man who, now as an adult, is rned wh Harry (Niko Terho), the school bully who tormented him for years. Romantic edy fans who have been cravg a new addn to the non that breaks the heteronormative mold will see their wish e te this month wh “Bros, ” the first gay rom- to premiere by a major stud.
” “Gay edians like me, we haven’t had a real chance to tell our stori like this a big way, on the big screen, ” he said. ”Both Eichner and Macfarlane said they hope straight people will watch and enjoy their gay rom- — jt like gay people have long watched and enjoyed straight love stori. “As a gay man, I’ve watched those movi, and I cried and I lghed, and I took somethg away om , ” Macfarlane said of straight rom-s.
“So I thk maybe askg some of our straight iends to watch a gay uple fall love and cry and lgh and take somethg om , too. And next year is gog to be even the first major stud gay rom-, to queer-clive horror, to Harry Styl playg a queer p, the next year will have a ton of great LGBTQ+ ntent on the big screen. Billy Eichner wrote and starred this gay rom- wh an all LGBTQ+ prcipal st, cludg Bowen Yang, Ts Madison, Guillermo Diaz, and Le Macfarlane as Eichner's love tert.