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Contents:

• HOW THE GAY TWIST NEIGHBORS 2 TURNS THE “BROMANCE” ON ITS HEAD
• DAVE FRAN IS A GAY FRAT BRO ‘NEIGHBORS 2’ – VIDEO
• ZAC EON GAY? FALLY, HE TELLS ALL TO THE ADVOTE
• WHY DAVE FRAN'S NEIGHBORS 2 CHARACTER WILL BE GAY
• THIS IS WHY DAVE FRAN'S CHARACTER IS NOW GAY IN 'NEIGHBORS 2'

HOW THE GAY TWIST NEIGHBORS 2 TURNS THE “BROMANCE” ON ITS HEAD

The gay film I Am Michael, about Jam Fran playg a gay activist-turned-"straight" pastor, has arrived on Vio on Demand, and wh , leaked scen of some the movie's more.. Related | Ex-Gay Bpic I Am Michael Should Be Rated XWhile the scene is a b darkly l and wily shot for our tast, 's still a real treasure of morn cema.

DAVE FRAN IS A GAY FRAT BRO ‘NEIGHBORS 2’ – VIDEO

Comedy about male iendship wasn’t new, but the movi and their mutually adorg hero felt like a shift after a of vilently homophobic at-pack flicks—Weddg Crashers, Dodgeball, etc. Before long, they beme a b of an assembly le themselv, and they brought their own problems, but they seemed at least to reject many of Amerin edy’s most toxic gay-panic stcts favor of newly trospective male relatnships.

There are probably some jok Superbad that are borrg on blatantly homophobic at tim. Or The Interview, wh s tly idtic scen where Emem out as gay and Jam Fran kiss Kim Jong-un. Neighbors self toggl between gay bag and gay panic, as when two at bros grasp each other’s balls durg a fight but then have a near breakdown when one of them gets an erectn.

ZAC EON GAY? FALLY, HE TELLS ALL TO THE ADVOTE

But even as they relied on the sometim-homophobic ctch, the movi really were gettg at somethg new.

WHY DAVE FRAN'S NEIGHBORS 2 CHARACTER WILL BE GAY

It uldn’t be a cince that the bromance h a zegeisy high at the same time Amerin pop culture began to qutn s ias about male closens and kneejerk ridiculg of gayns. Gay panic didn’t disappear om Hollywood edi, but this gentle progrs certaly ma a difference.

Goldberg was apparently the one who suggted that Pete “should jt be gay, ” sce he basilly was already. But the moment is still worth celebratg, bee shows how the movie’s homosocial progenors really did open up new possibili. Dave Fran's character the upg film Neighbors 2: Sorory Risg will be gay and engaged to another man (John Early, formerly of 30 Rock).

Jt to be clear, gay male characters and stori by flt have ttosterone. “Clearly, we're playg wh the homoerotic tensn there, and I was like, ‘He should jt be gay, '” Stoller told last month durg a vis to his Hollywood ed bay. [Co-wrer] Evan Goldberg brought up, and he said, ‘I thk he should be gay, and part of [his arc] should be the proposal.

THIS IS WHY DAVE FRAN'S CHARACTER IS NOW GAY IN 'NEIGHBORS 2'

Durg the prs junket for the origal Neighbors, Stoller was asked by a reporter why he had never clud a gay character prev movi.