Contents:
- IN 'MOONLIGHT,' GROWG UP BLACK, GAY AND POOR IN 1980S MIAMI
- 'MOONLIGHT' : A MT-SEE DRAMA ABOUT A GAY BLACK BOY AND THE MAN HE BE — AND HOP TO BEE
IN 'MOONLIGHT,' GROWG UP BLACK, GAY AND POOR IN 1980S MIAMI
Hibbert as Chiron, a young black man growg up gay an impoverished part of Miami Moonlight. It's an thentic, timate portra of a young, gay black man whose mother is a crack addict. He was not gay, and he played football.
'MOONLIGHT' : A MT-SEE DRAMA ABOUT A GAY BLACK BOY AND THE MAN HE BE — AND HOP TO BEE
It’s nsired by many to be one of the first exampl of gay imagery film, and a remr that homosexual reprentatn has been wh the medium om the very begng. That clip appears The Celluloid Closet, Rob Epste and Jefey Friedman’s documentary based on Vo Rso’s study of homosexualy the movi, along wh untls exampl of how gay characters showed up, per narrator Lily Toml, as “somethg to lgh at, or somethg to py, or even somethg to fear.