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'MOONLIGHT' : A MT-SEE DRAMA ABOUT A GAY BLACK BOY AND THE MAN HE BE — AND HOP TO BEE
“4 Moons” is Serg Tovar Velar’s look at gay boys and men today’s Mexi. * moon gay film *
And then, on top of this, a sympathetic and posive portra of gay men. I have a crge meter which monors how we, gays, are treated. Director Barry Jenks has somehow figured out how to envelop this turbulent story — a poor black boy endur soul-srrg r of passage as he grows up to be a very troubled gay man — an atmosphere that’s achgly tenr and even betiful.
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