{"id":1672352,"date":"2022-10-04T14:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T18:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672352"},"modified":"2022-10-04T15:08:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T19:08:18","slug":"10-gay-movies-that-didnt-bomb-due-to-homophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/10-gay-movies-that-didnt-bomb-due-to-homophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Gay Movies That Didn\u2019t Bomb Due to Homophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F10-gay-movies-that-didnt-bomb-due-to-homophobia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672352&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/\">Culture<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Billy Eichner says bigotry to blame for gay romcom&#8217;s box office flop <\/p>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 October 4, 2022 2:10 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Gay celeb Billy Eichner thinks &#8220;homophobic weirdos&#8221; are to blame for his new film&#8217;s disappointing performance at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>Eichner co-wrote and stars in <em>Bros<\/em>, a gay romantic comedy that earned just $4.8 million on opening weekend, which was roughly &#8220;40 percent less than the low end of prerelease analyst expectations,&#8221; according to the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s embarrassing,\u00a0but not as embarrassing as Eichner&#8217;s deranged social media tirade blaming\u00a0&#8220;straight people, especially in certain parts of the country&#8221; for the film&#8217;s dismal returns. &#8220;That&#8217;s just the world we live in, unfortunately,&#8221; Eichner wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Everyone who ISN&#8217;T a homophobic weirdo should go see BROS tonight!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like most liberals who insist that bigotry is to blame for their personal failings, Eichner is wrong. A <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> analysis determined that the actor&#8217;s bitter rant is not supported by the facts. There is no shortage of &#8220;gay&#8221; films that didn&#8217;t bomb at the box office due to homophobia. Here are just a handful of examples:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Brokeback Mountain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Box office: $178 million<\/p>\n<p>Awards: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score (Academy)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) The Birdcage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Box office: $185 million<\/p>\n<p>Awards: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (Screen Actor&#8217;s Guild)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) The Imitation Game<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Box office: $234 million<\/p>\n<p>Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay (Academy)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>4) Rocketman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Box office: $195 million<\/p>\n<p>Awards: Best Original Song (Academy), Best Actor (Golden Globe)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>5) Philadelphia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Box office: $207 million<\/p>\n<p>Awards: Best Actor, Best Original Song (Academy)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>6) Mrs. Doubtfire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Box office: $441 million<\/p>\n<p>Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Golden Globe)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>7) I Now Pronounce You Chuck &#038; Larry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Box office: $187 million<\/p>\n<p>Awards: N\/A<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>8) The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Box office: $3 billion<\/p>\n<p>Awards: Best Picture, Best Director (Academy)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>9) Sonic the Hedgehog<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Box office: $320 million<\/p>\n<p>Awards: Best Villain (Critic&#8217;s Choice)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>10) Southside with You<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Box office: $6.5 million<\/p>\n<p>Awards: Best Chicago Film (Chicago Indie Critics)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gay celeb Billy Eichner thinks &#8220;homophobic weirdos&#8221; are to blame for his new film&#8217;s disappointing performance at the box office.<br \/>\nThe post 10 Gay Movies That Didn\u2019t Bomb Due to Homophobia appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1672355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1672355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}