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Contents:

• 'BROS' TRAILER: BILLY EICHNER TO LEAD FIRST GAY ROM- BY A MAJOR STUD
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT 'BROS,' THE FIRST GAY ROM- PRODUCED BY A MAJOR STUD
• 'BROS' STARS SAY 'S TIME FOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE TO ENJOY A GAY ROM
• THE NUNDM OF BEG THE ‘FIRST GAY ROM- OM A MAJOR STUD’
• BROS’ PERFECTLY TUNED ROMANTIC EDY BUCKL UNR THE WEIGHT OF THE GAY ROM- TONE
• ‘BROS,’ THE FIRST BIG-STUD R-RATED GAY ROM-, IS FOR EVERYONE
• GAY ROM- 'BROS' IS LIGHT AND BRIGHT WHILE MAKG MOVIE HISTORY
• GAY ROM- ‘BROS’ IS HERE TO TAKE OVER AS FIRST REVIEWS ARRIVE
• BILLY EICHNER 'COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD' THAT HIS GAY ROM-COM 'BROS' IS THE FIRST MOVIE TO EVER FEATURE AN ALL-LGBTQ+ CAST
• ‘BROS’: DATE, ST, PLOT, AND ALL THE LATT BUZZ AROUND UNIVERSAL PICTUR' FIRST GAY ROM

'BROS' TRAILER: BILLY EICHNER TO LEAD FIRST GAY ROM- BY A MAJOR STUD

Universal Pictur released Wednday the trailer for “Bros, ” the first gay romantic edy to premiere by a major gay rom- was wrten by and stars Billy Eichner, makg the edian and four-time Emmy nomated actor the first openly gay man to ever wre and star his own major stud film. "While ’s sane to me that took this long to get this movie ma, ’s still credibly excg to me — and a real sign of progrs — that the same stud makg movi like 'Jurassic World' and 'The Fast and the Fur' is also releasg this R rated gay rom wh an all LGBTQ+ st, and wh as much passn and enthiasm as they release those other films, " Eichner wrote.

"Nile Rivelli / Universal PicturDirected by Nicholas Stoller, "Bros" featur Eichner playg an openly gay man, Bobby, who stggl "to fd another tolerable human beg to go through life wh. In the trailer, Eichner's character is seen talkg on a podst about his experience meetg wh Hollywood producers about creatg a romantic film about gay people that "a straight guy might even like. ""They said: 'We jt want a movie that shows the world that gay relatnships and straight relatnships are the same.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT 'BROS,' THE FIRST GAY ROM- PRODUCED BY A MAJOR STUD

Hollywood has ma untls romance movi by now — but the first-ever gay rom- two produced by a major motn picture is only g out this year.

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

The movie was wrten by edian Billy Eichner, who is also the first openly gay man to go-wre and star his own film. The movie also stars SNL st member Bowen Yang, who recently appeared Hulu’s “Fire Island, ” a “Pri and Prejudice” rx set the inic gay vatn large supportg st clus Dot-Marie Jon (“Glee”), Jim Rash, Ts Madison, Miss Lawrence, Guillermo Diaz, Moni Raymund, Symone, Peter Kim, Beno Skner, Bec Blackwell, Jim Rash, Guy Branum, Harvey Fierste and Eve only non-LGBTQ members of the st are Debra Msg and Krist Chenoweth, acrdg to the New York first full-length trailer shows the meet-cuteThe movie’s first full-length trailer dropped on Thursday, Eichner took to Twter to exprs his excement.

"The major Hollywood studs lerally ma 300 movi about DINOSAURS before they ma ONE rom about two gay guys fallg love. And if you like dosrs, you’ll LOVE gay people! “He looks like a gay Tom Brady, ” Bobby remarks to a iend.

THE NUNDM OF BEG THE ‘FIRST GAY ROM- OM A MAJOR STUD’

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.

BROS’ PERFECTLY TUNED ROMANTIC EDY BUCKL UNR THE WEIGHT OF THE GAY ROM- TONE

In their acceptance speech, they had mistakenly claimed that they were the first openly gay man (Smh me out as non-bary two years later) to triumph at the prtig award​ ​ceremony. The film is beg heavy-handly marketed by Universal as “the first gay romantic edy to premiere by a major stud” — or as Gawker put , “Billy Eichner is the first gay man ever — or at least that’s what the ‘Bros’ marketg mpaign would have you believe. ” Many saw this as an overt reference to Fire Island and Netflix’s Unupled, two buzzy gay projects that were created by and starred gay men.

Night Shyamalan’s upg Knock at the Cab, a horror flick wh a gay uple played by two openly gay actors (Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge) at the center. It’s unlikely this will be promoted as the first gay horror film om a major stud. Now, if you’ll exce me, I’m gog to go stream the first gay rom- to feature a ver of Brney Spears’s “Sometim”: Fire Island.

Bros’ perfectly tuned romantic edy buckl unr the weight of the gay rom- tone. It’s “the first gay romantic edy om a major stud featurg an entirely LGBTQ prcipal st, ” wh Eichner beg touted as “the first openly gay man to wre and star a major stud film.

‘BROS,’ THE FIRST BIG-STUD R-RATED GAY ROM-, IS FOR EVERYONE

Their meet-cute, amidst a swirlg vortex of vogueg club gays, feels like the proper 21st-century queer versn of a NYC love story.

Add a sre by Marc Shaiman and a bounty of Nat Kg Cole needle-drops, and you’d thk this Gay When Harry Met Sally would be off and nng.

The moments where they s around a nference table and rotely poe queer talkg pots feel as dry and unspired as if the Senate sequenc om the Star Wars prequels took place an echo chamber of gay stereotyp.

GAY ROM- 'BROS' IS LIGHT AND BRIGHT WHILE MAKG MOVIE HISTORY

Dpe the actor’s volatile watchabily, Bobby emerg ls as a real person than a walkg Twter rant of everythg that’s wrong wh gay culture.

That clus, but is not limed to: straight actors playg gay people; the edic e of “the F slur”; the film dtry’s palizatn on queer trma; and the problematic nature of Bohemian Rhapsody beg about a gay in a straight relatnship. You n easily image the one-note meathead Aaron uld be, but Macfarlane really plays the pathos of this guy who’s lived a life straddlg his privilege as a straight-passg mascule gay man wh his sire to feel ls like an outsir to gay culture.

He’s easily the most plete and pellg character the st, and his loss and victori are the emotnal high pots of a film that’s at s bt when ’s playg out the classic rom- beats om a gay perspective. It’s a satisfyg endg, and one that reveals Eichner’s ultimate amg of this film as a long-awaed troductn om queer culture to mastream cema, a Gay Rey handg off a rabow-lored lightsaber to Le Skywalker. In that ntext, ’s hard to flt Eichner for treatg this “first major stud gay rom-” wh the utmost level of rponsibily.

GAY ROM- ‘BROS’ IS HERE TO TAKE OVER AS FIRST REVIEWS ARRIVE

While Bros often feels overstuffed wh ias, a treatise on Why Gay People Derve To Be a Rom-Com rather than jt a really good rom- wh gay people, also feels exactly le wh Bobby’s-slash-Billy’s chief goal: “I wanted to wre about my world, my life, my iends. “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?

BILLY EICHNER 'COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD' THAT HIS GAY ROM-COM 'BROS' IS THE FIRST MOVIE TO EVER FEATURE AN ALL-LGBTQ+ CAST

“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. Whereas Apatow’s past films have clud their share of lame homophobic humor, here he lends his expertise to icky sight gags volvg masturbatn and one of the most hilar group sex scen possibly ever mted to s -jok, badage-y dialogue and pacey edg, “Bros” mak for a breezy sendup of everythg om the earnt excs of inty polics — one of Bobby’s mm board members wants a display like the blue whale at the Mm of Natural History “except ’s a lbian” — to throupl and the rentments of agg boomers and Gen Xers toward their lennial lleagu.

Billy Eichner and Le MacFarlane star the first major stud gay romantic edy wh an almost entirely gay st.

‘BROS’: DATE, ST, PLOT, AND ALL THE LATT BUZZ AROUND UNIVERSAL PICTUR' FIRST GAY ROM

AILSA CHANG, HOST: For years, Hollywood's major studs have tiptoed around the ia of a mastream gay romantic edy whout ever que mtg. Billy Eichner's "Bros" is a multiln-dollar, big stud, Judd Apatow-produced, R-rated rom- wh an almost entirely gay st, and 's openg this weekend on more than 3, 000 screens. To party and mun wh gay iend.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "BROS")LUKE MACFARLANE: (As Aaron Shepard) Gay guys are so stupid. Gay or straight, the formula is the same. In this se, the problem is that irrable Bobby, played by Billy Eichner, and mcle gay Aaron, played by Le Macfarlane, are both mment avoirs.

This person isn't gay. Bobby is the head of an LGBTQ mm, which allows a lot of jok about gay history.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "BROS")JIM RASH: (As Robert) You n't say Lln was gay.

Gay sex was more fun when straight people were unfortable wh . And after a uple of s of gay characters on TV, that's probably a safe bet. What matters, though, isn't really whether a rom- is gay, but whether 's fun.

Bros begs wh Billy Eichner's character, Bobby, mockg a Hollywood exec's outrageo vatn to make a big-stud gay rom- that appeals to straight men. " Bobby asks, his tic livery effectively cuttg the startled exec down to 's the kd of nightmare scenar that the forty-three-year-old Eichner, an openly gay actor for more than two s, feared he might be when Nick Stoller, who has directed du-iendly rom-s like Fettg Sarah Marshall and Neighbors and is notably straight, approached him about makg a big-stud gay rom-. " So he hung up his glov and the three men got to work on Bros (out September 30), billed as both the first big-stud movie starrg and ma by an almost entirely LGBTQ+ st and crew and the first R-rated gay rom- to be released by a major stud.