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.

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.

'BROS' STARS SAY 'S TIME FOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE TO ENJOY A GAY ROM

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.