Dot-Marie Jones Slams Low Turnout for ‘Bros’: ‘It’s Not Contagious, F—in’ Go See a Movie’

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Sasha Urban editor After a low opening turnout in theaters for LGBTQ rom-com “Bros,” writer and star Billy Eichner wrote on Twitter Sunday that it was “disappointing” that “straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up.” Dot-Marie Jones, who co-stars in the film, echoed Eichner’s sentimentsSunday evening at the Best in Drag Show, an annual parody drag pageant that functions as a charity benefit for people living with HIV/AIDS, and at which Jones was serving on the panel of judges.     “There’s so much heart and so many wonderful good laughs in this [movie],” Jones told Variety at the Orpheum Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles. “I don’t know if it’s because it’s, you know, LGBTQ.

It’s not contagious — fuckin’ go see a movie, you know what I mean? It’s crazy.” “I had a friend, she went and she’s straight,” Jones continued. “She went and saw it and went back and saw it again yesterday because everybody was laughing so much that she missed some of the jokes.” Jones was joined on the panel by “Abbott Elementary” star Lisa Ann Walter, who called Best in Drag “one of the best shows in town,” and praised the work of the evening’s benefiting organization, the Alliance for Housing and Healing, which provides shelter and resources to low-income individuals living with HIV/AIDS.   “We have the honor, when you have a platform, to speak about things that matter, to take care of people that are homeless, take care of people that are still struggling getting their medication for AIDS,” Walter told Variety. “It’s a really important thing to support causes that maybe some people forget about sometimes, but it’s still ongoing.” The Best in Drag Show has existed in various forms since 1989, when it was