Picture this: Your gay best friend is a history buff and all he wants is to open a history museum – but with a twist. This will be the first LGBTQ+ History Museum, stripping all centuries of rewritten history to reveal the truth. Your friend is Bobby Lieber, and you’re going to have the ride of your life.
brothers is Billy Eichner’s newest, happiest romp, and it comes at the perfect time. While LGBT Pride Month falls in June, many Pride festivities are held in the cooler fall months, marking the September 30 release of brothers a very current one. In the film, Eichner stars as Bobby Lieber, a museum curator whose quest is not for love, but for sharing LGBTQ+ history with the world. He loves his life and loves being single. A noble cause, until the smoking hot lawyer Aaron, played by Luke MacFarlane, changes Bobby’s plans.
The trailer is packed with LGBTQ+ jokes that don’t harm the community and are extremely humorous and refreshing. We would expect nothing less from Nicholas Stoller, the man who wrote Forgot Sarah Marshall – and although there may not be any puppet musicals in it brothers, we’re sure it will make you laugh just as much. It’s not just the jokes that catch on, but the LGBTQ+ culture that is permeated by every scene. From the music selection in the trailer to the gay nightclub and pride parade, brothers It looks like not only will it be laughable, but LGBTQ+ viewers will shed happy tears.
brothers tagline: is “A Romantic Comedy That Gives You All the Senses,” and the trailer alone leads us to believe it will more than live up to that promise. A number of groundbreaking LGBTQ+ films have been released over the past decade – from the ensemble drama Pride to the classic coming-out story Love, Simon. We see all kinds of films from all perspectives, but what has always been missing – and what the LGBTQ+ audience really want – are films in which gays people.
Genre movies where gays can go to space, visit a fantasy world, sail the open seas… or find love the same way a straight couple does in a perfectly cheap rom-com. brothers promises to give a hilarious, heartfelt and honest look at the life of a modern gay man, and we can’t wait to see it!
Hollywood has a long history of turning gay men into effeminate clumsy third wheels. It’s time to dispel those stereotypes and bring the true LGBTQ+ experience to the cinema. It’s time for gay characters to be the stars, get the man of their dreams and end up happily ever after. There have been plenty of female and male gaze rom-coms, but now it’s time for a queer gaze movie like brothers to shine.
LGBTQ+ actors playing straights?
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What does it really matter brothers set apart from other romcoms and LGBTQ+ movies is the dedication to the diversity of the cast. Hollywood has a problem with casting straight characters in gay rolesso Billy Eichner went the opposite route – casting only LGBTQ+ actors brothers. The star-studded cast is incredible and the trailer shows just how lively and excited they all are to be there. Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy), Luke MacFarlane (Killjoys), Ts Madison (The Ts Madison Experience), Monica Raymund (lie to me), and Guillermo Diaz (Scandal) are just some of the many LGBTQ+ actors cast in the film, and we’d love to see it!
Not only do a cast of LGBTQ+ actors play every role—the straight ones too—in brothers, but the film is a first in many other respects as well. Billy Eichner is now the first gay man to co-write and star in his own major studio film. brothers is also the first major studio film to to have a fully LGBTQ+ cast. Best of all, if brothers makes it through awards season, the actors could become the first LGBTQ+ people to be nominated in their category and certainly the first to win in many cases if they succeed. After Ariana DeBose’s Oscar win this year made her the first openly queer woman of color to win the Best Supporting Actress award, we hope that brothers will also be groundbreaking next prize season!
Casting only LGBTQ+ actors was a deliberate choice by Eichner and co-writer Nicholas Stoller. Hiring an all-LGBTQ+ cast for a highly gay film only improves the performances, quality, and appeal of brothers. Many straight and cisgender actors have been nominated – and won! – awards for their roles as LGBTQ+ characters, and this needs to be fixed. With so many talented LGBTQ+ actors in Hollywood today, brothers choosing to cast only LGBTQ+ actors is a phenomenal move. It’s time for a gay rom-com to take center stage, and it’s time for LGBTQ+ actors to take home awards for playing queer characters.
With so much promise in the trailer, we can’t wait until September 30th when brothers hits theaters!