Brother to Brother (2004)

Brother to Brother (2004) first debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, though it made its way through the LGBTQ film circuits as well before blowing up when its star made his way to the MCU. The story begins when a gay, black artist named Perry (Anthony Mackie) is kicked out of his childhood home by his homophobic father. He's forced to live in a tiny dorm room at Columbia University, only to have to dump his white boyfriend (Alex Burns) when he says some racist stuff. Looking for someone who won't end up being a bigot, Perry befriends an elderly homeless guy named Bruce (Roger Robinson), who he comes to find out is actually Richard Bruce Nugent, a major literary figure during the Harlem Renaissance who knew dudes like Langston Hughes (Daniel Sunjata), Aaron Douglas (Leith M. Burke), James Baldwin (Lance Reddick) and Wallace Thurman (Ray Ford). As it turns out, the racism and homophobia Perry dealt with all those years back is pretty similar to the kind Bruce is facing today. Perry ends up getting transported back to the 1920s, so to speak, and gets to experience it all (and we mean it all) for himself. Mr. Man's just here for the brothers, so he was all about seeing if any of our literati hotties took their clothes off. Not only does Perry go shirtless in several steamy gay scenes, but we see the same from Alex Burns when the racist hottie goes shirtless in bed with Perry. We'd cream that Burns! After the film transitions to black and white to represent the past, Ray Ford goes full frontal in a depressing (but sexy) bathtub scene. Reid Mihalko also graces us with his hot bod, showing his balls and butt in a sex scene turned nude fight. And before he was the new Cap, Anthony Mackie's beautiful chest in the sauna had us needing to fap! Brother to Brother might have more than one meaning, after all.