A LEAGUE OF OUR OWN
In one hilarious scene in the new gay rom-com Bros, Billy Eichner’s character, Bobby, undergoes a nervous breakdown in a national LGBTQ+ museum he is helping launch. Fueled in part by some testosterone injections he took to enhance his physique, Bobby grabs a mannequin of Abraham Lincoln and physically throws the former president — known in his early years to share a bed with a male friend — back into the closet. The fury is funny, but it also taps into a primal despair many of us in the LGBTQ+ community feel as dozens of states attempt to erase us from public education. And now, after the devastating reversal of Roe, the far right has become further emboldened to roll back our hard-won rights to marry and even love one another…
