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obby (Billy Eichner), a would-be museum curator and a writer whose acidulated witticisms have actually produced him a degree of popularity within ny’s LGBTQ+ community, just isn’t interested in love. Neither is actually Aaron (Luke Macfarlane), a miserable testate lawyer in the day time hours, shirtless queer-club attention candy when the sun goes down. And undoubtedly neither would countenance such a thing as soul-crushingly cosy and heteronormative as commitment. Yet, after an abortive basic encounter, there’s a spark between them.

This sharply written comedy tries to make the multiplicity of LGBTQ+ identities and numerous forms and forms of queer connections and retool these to fit into a conventional romcom layout. And for the most component, it really works quite well – a ribald and riotous barrage of bracing humour which belies a sweetly comfortable center. But it is whenever that softness becomes sappiness within the third work that issues start. Eichner is found on great kind utilizing the scabrous spikiness from the first half the image, but neither he nor the film it self looks fully confident with the ultimate descent into sentimentality.