![]() It is, after all, a rueful ode to a white masc-centric gay culture that the movie understands to be passé and exclusionary even as it has been its protagonist’s whole world. Eichner has done so much work to load down Bros with qualified historical significance, and to insist that it’s not like those other gay movies, that it’s a pleasant surprise to finally watch the thing and find it to be sexy, messy, and joyful, and informed less by a sense of its own importance than by a vague uncertainty that it may have arrived too late to the party. Also, it’s about 40-year-olds who fuck, not a coming-out story about someone fumbling their first kiss, like roughly 90 percent of gay stories onscreen are, he declared to GQ. ![]() It’s not some indie or “some streaming thing which feels disposable,” as he said to Variety, words he then clarified after they were interpreted as a slight against fellow gay rom-com Fire Island, which premiered on Hulu in June. It’s the first movie* (*at a major studio) to star and be written by an openly gay man. ![]() It’s the first gay rom-com ever made* (*by a major studio). For months now, Billy Eichner has been touting the milestones represented by his new film, Bros.
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