Today we are continuing our exploration of queer love stories.

In 2022, you couldn't go anywhere in a major city and not see a poster of two white men with

their hands on each other's denim-clad asses.

This is because the film we are discussing today, br Bros, while it only had a $22 million production

budget, had a marketing budget of $33.6 million.

The movie, co-written, produced by, and starring Billy Eichner, was a critical success and a box office

failure. Brose was, according to Slate, the first gay romantic comedy co-written by and starring

a gay man to be backed by a major studio, Universal, and receive a wide theatrical distribution.

The film is about Bobby Lieber, who hosts a very successful podcast called The Eleventh Brick at Stonewall.

Because we all know a butch lesbian or a trans woman of color probably through the first brick at Stonewall,

but it was a cis white gay man who threw the 11th brick. The movie starts with a wink about its protagonist. The opening bit is him winning an award

for Best White Sis Gay Man. While accepting the award, Bobby announces a career shift. He's accepted a position as the director

and curator for the upcoming national LGBTQ plus history museum in Manhattan, which means that

his identity is now wrapped up in whether or not he can make enough money for the museum to be a success.

For the rest of the film, Bobby will hold anxiety about making the museum both good and financially

viable.

And we can easily imagine this as an apt metaphor for Eichner's feelings about bros.

We need to get people to rethink history through a queer prism, not comfort them with

another fucking gay wedding, all right?

It's a museum.

It's not Schitt's Creek.

Oh, I like Schitt's Creek.

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