Thread by @guybranum

In talking about how cruelly @billyeichner, white, cis, rich, hot- or not-hot-enough-to-be-a-movie-star (depending on who's tweeting) demanded the queer community support his movie, a thing that is rarely mentioned is the rest of the cast.

When @nicholasstoller and @JuddApatow gave Billy the chance to write and star in a film, they were working from an established game plan Judd had used to help build the careers of @amyschumer @kumailn @Sethrogen and others. In making films like "Trainwreck" or "The Big Sick"...

newer comic voices were surrounded by established famous movie stars like Holly Hunter, Marissa Tomei, and Tilda Swinton. But Billy asked for his movie to not surround him with famous movie stars, but with out LGBTQ+ performers.

Because of discrimination, there aren't many LGBTQ+ actors with box office draw. In casting the romantic lead of the movie, he could have asked @ChrisEvans, but instead he went with a guy who came out in 2008 and got stuck making Hallmark movies for 20 years, @lukemac_BROS

and yes, Luke is white and masc and cis and hot, but the gay male community has spent so much time fetishizing these things that half of @Queerty's articles are just lists of torsos. Billy knew he had to draw attention to make $, and Luke is a gifted actor who draws attention.

And for the rest of the cast, Billy and Nick worked so hard to find veterans like @guillermodiazyo, who works constantly, but rarely gets to play gay, or stage actors like Becca Blackwell, who don't get many movies because LA has no idea what to do with bearded nonbinary d*kes

He found @alienreese who was just doing her Kamala impression online, and pulled her into the mix. He fell in love with @TsMadisonatl1 through her vines and helped continue her burgeoning acting career.

Billy took a risk convincing the straight guys and corporations to cast queer people without extensive resumes or B.O. draw, like me, in this movie. So when you pat yourself on the back for resisting the tokenizing, condescending marketing for the film...

Also acknowledge that @billyeichner held the door open for a lot of other, diverse queer people, and this movie doing poorly at the box office limits the opportunities which will be in our future.

Yes, streaming is a safer place for romantic comedies, and queer stories, but that's because streaming services get to decide how to allocate their resources for a diverse slate of programming. Getting lots of views is great...

But until we can show Hollywood that stories by us, about us are a way of directly generating money, we will not have the opportunities, or control over our own stories that straight cis people have always enjoyed.

#BrosMovie is still in theaters. Go, not because you're obliged to, not because @billyeichner was in @GQMagazine, not because if we don't, the homophobes win. Go because @EveLindley is the funniest fucking person in America.