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Contents:
- SPOILER ALERT: IT'S GAY!
- GAY ROM-COMS WON 2022, EVEN IF THEY DIDN’T MAKE MONEY
- HERE’S WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW TO TAKE ON BIG GAY
- ‘SPOILER ALERT’ REVIEW: A GAY COUPLE GETS THE ‘BIG SICK’ TREATMENT FUNNY-SAD ROM-COM
SPOILER ALERT: IT'S GAY!
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GAY ROM-COMS WON 2022, EVEN IF THEY DIDN’T MAKE MONEY
We talk about the new "Gay This Week" segment, cisg NYC, my csh of the week Spencer Jordan, and Netflix's 01, 2022901:27:4980. 41 MBThat Gay Netflix Show (w/Thomas Khongmaly) Fally talkg about that gay Netflix show wh my pal Thomas! And SPOILER ALERT: IT'S GAY!
So much gay. Follow the pod on IG at @GaySpoiler. Stream It Or Skip It: 'Bros' on Prime Vio, Billy Eichner's Unapologetilly Gay, Unapologetilly Funny Rom-Com.
When I first saw the trailer for Billy Eichner’s unapologetilly gay romantic edy Bros, I was a movie theater ral Michigan. Wow, people really are homophobic bigots the Midwt! Bee 2022 was a year of mastream, gay romance movi, and that’s a good thg, whether or not those movi were fancial hs.
HERE’S WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW TO TAKE ON BIG GAY
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His job is gay, his iends are gay, his hobbi are gay, and his sex life is very, explicly gay. It centers on one very specific queer experience—a group of young, poor, gay men takg an annual trip to New York’s Fire Island—and was based on wrer Joel Kim Booster’s own history of visg the famo gay vatn beach spot wh his -star Bowen Yang. It’s a tad more sanized than the first two films, but ’s powerful to see Parsons—an actor beloved by middle Ameri as the nerdy, nervo, and very much straight du Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory—embrace his inty as a gay man on screen.
‘SPOILER ALERT’ REVIEW: A GAY COUPLE GETS THE ‘BIG SICK’ TREATMENT FUNNY-SAD ROM-COM
But was Bros, the most high-profile om the biggt stud, that beme the face of the story for the dience’s appete for gay romanc. But after years of beg told he is too gay for mastream dienc, you n unrstand why Eichner would feel that way. He said as much an terview wh CBS Sunday Morng, when he was asked why took so long for one of the big five Hollywood studs to back a gay rom-, sayg, “The real answer to that is that the world, cludg Hollywood, has been very homophobic.
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