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NBC says "queer" and "LGBTQ+," but it sounds like Leonardo was a homosexual man https://t.co/qBm1pPHLLT via @nbcnews
— David Boaz (@David_Boaz) October 30, 2022
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NBC says "queer" and "LGBTQ+," but it sounds like Leonardo was a homosexual man https://t.co/qBm1pPHLLT via @nbcnews
— David Boaz (@David_Boaz) October 30, 2022
All in all, I liked Billy Eichner’s “Bros” more than the linked review below, despite its flaws, which I’ll get to. The depiction of urban gay life among thirtysomethings in the age of Grinder rings true, as does the budding relationship between neurotic Bobby (Eichner) and hot lawyer Aaron (Luke Macfarlane) as they try to overcome the barriers that hook-up culture and self-doubt pose to emotional intimacy. The “realness” of the onscreen relationship between these two emotional wounded men, and the film’s dark humor, may be why straight audiences haven’t embraced “Bros,” as it’s far from the cutesy rom-com mold that might have been more commercially acceptable.
And then there’s the fake history and woke politics that Eichner’s script imposes on the story. I nearly signed off after Bobby’s opening monologue, where he relates the myth that Stonewall was led by transwomen of color who threw the first brick (no, it wasn’t and they didn’t) and declares that a cis gay white man probably only threw the 11th brick. That canard is repeated later as well by Bobby, a fundraiser for a budding LGBTQ+ history museum in Manhattan. Later, when the museum opens, an exhibit celebrates Obama and refers to the “nightmare” that followed. You get the picture.
But the infighting among the “diverse” fundraising committee of transpeople of color, a bisexual, a lesbian or two, and Bobby (the lone cis white gay man) is played for some genuine laughs (although, of course, this diversity excludes anyone not on the woke left although gay Republicans would no doubt help to fund such a museum).
I’m not sure what compromises, if any, could have made “Bros” a profitable picture, but thumbing its nose at a large segment of gay viewers didn’t help.
So I wrote up my thoughts about #BrosMovie and @HollywoodInToto was kind enough to publish it.https://t.co/igkrQhmxhh
— Joseph Jones (@JoeGayHistorian) October 4, 2022
Another take:
Woke, far-Left Hollywood Reporter just threw Eichner under the bus!https://t.co/jUWfDr6c70
— Christian Toto (@HollywoodInToto) October 5, 2022
And these:
Its hard to money on 7% of the population.
— Donald Taylor (@DTincville) October 4, 2022
The Hollywood Reporter https://t.co/oR5u22xtOQ
#Bros Director, Producer Talk Opening Weekend After #BillyEichner Drama – The Hollywood Reporter @THR https://t.co/pFHBYjryr1
— GlobalLGBTNews 🏳️🌈 (@GlobalLGBTNews) October 8, 2022
Western LGBTQ+ and feminists groups won’t criticize deadly homophobia and misogyny in Islamic countries because that would put them on the side of “colonialism” and white/western supremacy.
Corporations paying off @HRC for absolution = modern-day religious indulgence. Throwing cash at a big-city galas doesn’t excuse the responsibility they have to our community to call out true evil. They’re more obsessed with pronouns in FL than gays being executed in the ME. https://t.co/1BdLUGR6Xd
— Charles T. Moran (@CharlesTMoran) October 8, 2022
These brave women, who do nothing but love their same Sex brothers & sisters & have never said anything transphobic ever. I salute & admire their strength. https://t.co/fbiaseXbbs
— frances Barber (@francesbarber13) October 2, 2022
Bit by bit, the absence of any evidentiary basis behind “gender affirming care” for minors makes it way onto the public record, even in the organs that have been uncritically parroting activist speak and boxing out any review of the evidence for years https://t.co/55AwpiKuUo
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) October 6, 2022
It’s true. pic.twitter.com/bGj0gOdtDH
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) September 6, 2022
As evolutionary biologist Colin Wrights explains:
>>We should treat children who are different with compassion and acceptance. Transgender ideology does the opposite. When children say they’re transgender, that frequently prompts a visit to a gender clinic where a “gender-affirming” therapist may prescribe puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and even surgery to “fix” this perceived misalignment between “gender identity” (i.e., social roles and stereotypes) and the child’s biological sex.
As an ideological matter alone, this is regressive in the extreme. It repudiates decades of work by women’s-rights activists who rightfully gauged such notions as sexist and oppressive and fought to free nonconformists from social stigma. Subjecting children to body-altering surgery and drugs is a medical scandal of horrifying proportions.<<
21./ What's also become clear is the vast majority of teens referred to gender clinics are gay. It's easy to forget when the Protocol was developed in the 90s homophobia was rife. 'Stranger in My Own Body' treats homosexuality as problematic and related to being trans.👇 pic.twitter.com/aQPh2w2ghm
— Malcolm Clark (@TwisterFilm) September 23, 2022
Recognition of “male-to-eunuch” as a “gender identity” may be shocking to some — it may even be shocking to some who fervently believe that children have the agency to use chemical castration drugs to stop their own development at puberty https://t.co/Mu35rdu2kH
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) September 23, 2022
Of Eunuchs and Wannabes on Year Zero https://t.co/2chHNdqmmj
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) September 23, 2022