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THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
Universal Pictur will make history wh Billy Eichner starrer 'Bros,' the first stud rom- about two gay men. * movie gay universal *
Billie Holiday), Symone (RuPl’s Drag Race), Guillermo Diaz (Law & Orr: Organized Crime) and Guy Branum (tTV’s The Game Show) to star Bros, which will make history as the first romantic edy om a major stud about two gay men, and the first stud film featurg an entirely LGBTQ+ prcipal st, wh queer actors takg on queer rol, as well as all heterosexual characters. The latter will make history of his own as the first openly gay man to -wre and star his own stud film. Bros is billed as a smart, swoony and heartfelt edy about two two gay men—played by Eichber and Macfarlane—maybe, possibly, probably, stumblg towards love.
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If “Barbie” tells anythg, ’s that a movie don’t have to be gay to be, well, gay.
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So what mak a movie gay if isn’t explicly? Cast a few top-shelf gay ins there — your Bette Middlers, your Joan Crawfords, your Faye Dunaways playg Joan Crawford — and pecially have them reparteeg bchy l tearg each other to piec, and have an athetic that’s outre and unironilly mp, and you’ve got the wng-formula starter-pack for somethg licly fabulo and queer, even if not by tentnal sign. But settg a precent for movi now nonized by gay culture that don’t technilly have any (non-d, anyway) gay characters were some of Hollywood’s most all-time legendary actrs: Bette Davis “All About Eve” ma “’s gog to be a bumpy ri” an idmatic quip, while Elizabeth Taylor then ma Bette Davis’ “what a dump” even more inic aga the openg le of “Who’s Aaid of Virgia Woolf, ” livered while gnawg down on a chicken wg.
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Below, IndieWire rounds up some of the bt cidly non-gay films that are actually gay after all — and gayer than many ntemporary movi proclaimg themselv as such actually are. Why ’s gay: Bette Davis, we (the queer muny) love you.