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.
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The performanc are staggerg: Al Paco as the ignom Roy Cohn; Jefey Wright is the sharp-wted gay nurse who tends to him; Mary-Louise Parker as a pill-poppg hoewife wed to a closeted Mormon; Emma Thompson as an imper (and sometim sassy) angel; and Meryl Streep four rol, cludg the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg. The work tak back to a time when AIDS was stigmatized as a “gay plague.