The director’s latt film Blackbird, about a southern teenager realisg that he’s gay, has already won a handful of awards, but ially faced a ser challenge: no young black actors would play the lead role
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- MO'NIQUE: BLACKBIRD IS MY 'LOVE LETTER' TO THE GAY COMMUNY
- PATRIK-IAN POLK: 'I'M ED TO ACTORS BEG SRED TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS'
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
MO'NIQUE: BLACKBIRD IS MY 'LOVE LETTER' TO THE GAY COMMUNY
The Urban Movie Channel, created by BET founr Robert L. Johnson, is beg touted as the black Netflix. Its first origal movie, Blackbird, is about a gay terracial romance the Deep South. * gay movie blackbird *
I know many wouldn't look twice at bee of the gay theme to but that shouldn't ter you om watchg somethg so well produced. Gay Polk-Payton... Black Lgbt, Gay Director, Sexualy & Sger.
A nice surprise, which I didn't have terribly high hop for after seeg the ratgs but was actually a nice ltle 's a drama about a black teenager om a really relig uprgg who's stgglg wh his sexualy, biggt reason for his stggle beg his force-fed belief that homosexualy is a s. I didn't have a missg baby sister or an openly gay bt iend named Eem (Gary L. And this next one is jt my personal gripe, but - no way hell if I were Randy uld I have been battlg gay feelgs/dreams and had an openly gay iend as fe as Eem who obvly had the hots for me.
Gary LeRoi Gray as a gay iend...
PATRIK-IAN POLK: 'I'M ED TO ACTORS BEG SRED TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS'
For example, two gay young men (17 and early 20s) pick one of the boy's rs right ont of the other boy's hoe which to have sex? We have seen films where gays are loved and praised, which is always fun to watch, but is also important that we get to see the other si.
This has all a way that even Birth of a Natn uld not did black male youth bee so blase about homosexualy? And whose ia was to do Romeo and Juliet as gay? So the kid say he is not gay over and over and the whe boy keeps NOT takg no for an answer a classic example of sctn that s lns of boys' liv every damned day.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
Before that, he took the kid to a park where gays cise AFTER the kid would not e to his trailer (where the whe boy liv wh his folks!!! Meanwhile, his bt iend who IS gay "openly" gets VD and endur an HIV sre. Wh so few films speakg wh a black voice, let alone a Gay one, expectatns were high for ' Blackbird' but this hysteril nonsense jt leav the viewer wonrg WTF???!
There's way too many ncepts fightg each other for space here- relig fundamentalism, homophobia, mental health issu, abortn, fay dysfunctn, missg child syndrome, g out and more. "The film, based on a novel wrten nearly three s ago by Larry Duplechan, tackl a number of hot-button issu that have not been addrsed major films before: homophobia the black church, down-low culture, and even abortn, mental illns, and child overall, the Prec star says Blackbird is her "love letter" to the gay men she knew growg up who may have shared the experience of beg the victims of homophobia, of beg trapped the closet like Randy. '"Recently, Mo'Nique ma headl when she said had been ially offered the part of Cookie Lyon on the h Fox show Empire by Lee Daniels, s gay -creator and her director on Prec.
Cocintally, the creative projects both addrs homophobia the fay un -- the patriarch of the fay on Empire, Luc Lyon, stggl to accept his gay son, Jamal, much as Mo'Nique's character stggl to accept her (also milly talented) son, Randy. If any of her four sons were gay, "they wouldn't have to e out, " she says, bee they know they will be accepted.