The Bros Trailer Shows Us A Glimpse of the First Major Studio Gay Rom Com

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Billy Eichner on the set of Bros, directed by Nicholas Stoller.Photo Credit: Nicole Rivelli/Universal Pictures

This may be hard to believe, but there’s never been a gay rom com released by a major studio. That will change when Bros comes to theaters on September 30, the release of which will also make Difficult People star Billy Eichner the first gay man to ever write and star in his own major studio movie. And from the looks of the film’s official (and NSFW!) trailer, released today, the Billy on the Street instigator is pulling out all the stops — including his butt, for an elaborately staged glamor shot that gets him blocked on Grindr.

Eichner’s character Bobby is also sidelined during group sex, and cast out of a pool party for being too old, according to a truly rude party host played by Bowen Yang. Another historic first? All the roles in the film, including the straight ones, are played by LGBTQ+ actors, according to Eichner. That includes Luke Macfarlane, as the Meg Ryan to his Tom Hanks; Ru-niverse favorite Ts Madison; and Monica Raymund and Guillermo Díaz, who perform something called a “bottom dance” that we would absolutely like to learn.

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“While I wanted to make a movie that was hilarious and relatable to everyone, first and foremost I wanted to make a movie that felt authentic for the LGBTQ folks that the movie is about,” Eichner said in a press release. “What I wanted most of all was to make an authentic, hilarious, and heartfelt film about what it’s like to be a single adult gay man attempting a relationship in 2022.”

And it looks like Bros will pack plenty of insider laughs about gay sex and dating that haven’t been shown on this scale from Hollywood before.

Though the premise may not exactly seem like groundbreaking territory, remember Bros is coming from Universal Pictures, the makers of franchise juggernauts like Jurassic World and The Fast and the Furious. Directed by Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and produced by Judd Apatow, it’s a big bet that mainstream (read: not just queer) audiences will turn out for a movie with a poster features two guys grabbing each other’s asses.

Here’s hoping Bros opens the cineplex doors for a diverse array of queer rom coms in the near future.

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