The AIDS crisis long dominated the narratives of gay men in Hollywood films, which, as Alex Abad-Santos notes in Vox, is part of what makes the classic Boys in the Band (which started as a play in the '60s, was adapted into a film in the '70s, and returned to Broadway in 2018) unique; while the lives of the characters are still fraught with struggle, it centered their stories before the virus existed. Taking place over the course of an evening at a birthday party that turns into a tense reunion among frenemies, the newly adapted Netflix movie stars Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, and Andrew Rannells.