Frontiers | “It's Jt More Acceptable To Be Whe or Mixed Race and Gay Than Black and Gay”: The Perceptns and Experienc of Homophobia St. Lucia

Contents:

• ARE MORY MEN MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY? WHY?
• IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND
• GAY HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY: THE 10 INS PROVE IT
• “IT'S JT MORE ACCEPTABLE TO BE WHE OR MIXED RACE AND GAY THAN BLACK AND GAY”: THE PERCEPTNS AND EXPERIENC OF HOMOPHOBIA ST. LUCIA

ARE MORY MEN MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY? WHY?

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IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND

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GAY HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY: THE 10 INS PROVE IT

”As the mid-2000s gave way to the 2010s, a new class of Black gay die web seri, shorts and films began to but, takg advantage of the ease of buildg a followg on still evolvg vio s like YouTube and the natnal reach they uld easily ga through the seri like Freefall, DL Chronicl, Fdg Me, Triangle and In the Deep were jt a few of the productns that began drivg nversatns among the Black queer muny and high engagement on their YouTube, Vimeo and other social media platforms the early to mid-2010s. Wh the addn of feature films and shorts like Dari Clark Monroe’s Slow, there were a variety of narrativ beg explored through the die productns – wh Black gay relatnships beg a key element each of the film-maker Lamont Pierre, who has created and directed numero LGBTQ+-foced films and web seri like Talkg Wh the Taxman About Poetry, Mil + Cal, Kaleidospe, Red Sk and the popular Freefall, the growth of the web seri was an opportuny to expand the ia of how stori about Black queer men and their relatnships n be crime drama seri Freefall, which buted 2012, prented a darker tone and subject matter not regularly seen among Black gay die web seri at the time was productn, a choice he said he tentnally ma to diversify the stori beg prented. ’”Though Freefall wrapped productn 2016 after three seasons and 46 episos, more recent seri such as Pierre’s Red Sk and For the Boys are ntug to ph the nversatns forward and display h perspectiv on Black gay platonic and romantic the Boys, which was created by Ellis C Dawson and Mekhai Lee, foc on a tr of Black gay iends, Anthony, Jamal and Syed.

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“IT'S JT MORE ACCEPTABLE TO BE WHE OR MIXED RACE AND GAY THAN BLACK AND GAY”: THE PERCEPTNS AND EXPERIENC OF HOMOPHOBIA ST. LUCIA

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