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“Bros” is set to “Come Out” this September.
Universal Pictures recently released the first trailer for “Bros,” the first ever gay rom-com to be released by a major studio.
The film was written by and stars Billy Eichner, who is now making history himself as the first openly gay man to write and star in his own major studio film. “Bros” is also making history by being the first major studio film that has an entirely LGBTQ+ principal cast.
The film stars Eichner as Bobby Lieber, a single, podcast host who has seemingly lost all hope for love in the madness of the gay dating scene.
That is until he possibly stumbles his way towards love. From the first trailer, it looks like this movie is something that is going to touch a sweet spot for a lot of the LGBTQ+ community, not only because of it making history but because the story really captures what it’s like to be someone trying to date in the gay community.
The trailer made me audibly laugh out loud multiple times but it also made me tear up a little bit.
Being a gay man — seeing things that I have experienced being experienced on screen and being portrayed by people who have actually experienced it too — so they can capture the realness of it is something that this community has needed for a long time.
This movie shows the real gayness in daily life despite years of the overdramatized Hollywood representation of the community.
There was one thing from the trailer that really stuck with me and I think it’s going to for a lot of people in the community. In the scene, a major studio had asked Eichner’s character Bobby to write a movie about a gay man that a straight man would want to watch with his girlfriend. The studio exec added, “We just want a movie that shows the world that gay relationships and straight relationships are the same, love is love is love.”
In response Bobby says, ”That’s Bullshit. Our friendships are different, our sex lives are different, our relationships are different.”
That line really made me realize that this movie is the real deal, it’s not trying to push that Hollywood “Love is love … it’s all the same” agenda but rather show what it’s really like being apart of the LGBTQ+ community. This film looks like something that the LGBTQ+ community has been waiting for a very long time.
“Bros” comes out on September 30th, 2021.
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