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- WATCH: TRAILER FOR “SHAPE UP: GAY THE BLACK BARBERSHOP”
- SHAPE UP: GAY THE BLACK BARBERSHOP
- FILMMAKER EXPLOR CHALLENG OF BEG 'GAY THE BLACK BARBERSHOP'
WATCH: TRAILER FOR “SHAPE UP: GAY THE BLACK BARBERSHOP”
* shape up gay in the black barbershop *
In the documentary “Shape Up, ” gay filmmaker Derrick L. Middleton explor an oft ignored issue the Black muny, homophobia and hyper-masculy barbershops. Back when I ed to get regular profsnal haircuts, I often heard the Black barbers make sual homophobic jok and ments.
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SHAPE UP: GAY THE BLACK BARBERSHOP
Filmmaker Derrick L. Middleton hop his new documentary, "Shape Up: Gay the Black Barbershop," helps to change what he says is a culture of "homophobia" the spac. * shape up gay in the black barbershop *
Middleton recently screened his documentary, "Shape Up: Gay the Black Barbershop. " The actor and director hop the film will shed light on the culture of "homophobia" he says permeat the spac. "It is time for dialogue -- a nversatn of the mds to brg an end to what many gay men of lor like me experience daily when we want to simply get to the shop and get out, " Middleton told NBC Harlem native's uneass wh barbershops was stilled at the age of 5, when his father took him for his first haircut and uttered four words: "You're a man now.
"I will no longer be a willg participant the homophobia that's outwardly displayed barbershops. “I will no longer be a willg participant the homophobia that’s outwardly displayed barbershops, " Middleton documentary clus appearanc by former NFL player Wa Davis, journalist Clay Cane and wrer Michael Arcenex, who all share their own experienc as gay men black barbershops. Shape Up: Gay the Black Barbershop is a documentary short set Harlem, NYC.
FILMMAKER EXPLOR CHALLENG OF BEG 'GAY THE BLACK BARBERSHOP'
This film sheds light on the val role barbershops play wh the black muny while examg the often plited relatnship that black gay men have wh the spac. Middleton is the director of Shape Up: Gay the Black Barbershop, a documentary that explor how gay black men face disfort and discrimatn one of the few safe spac for black men Amerin society. "Middleton cid to document his and other gay black men's experienc barbershop after beg thrown out of a barber's chair two years ago.
'"Middleton left--as the barber snatched the pe off him--and scribed his walk home as a "walk of shame" for both what he jt faced and how he didn't speak he shared his story, he disvered other gay men who faced siar disfort and discrimatn.
The film won the bt emergg documentary award om the March on Washgton Film Middleton hop his film challeng black barbershops to nsir how they treat their gay or queer clients, he also wants to praise the importance of the barbershop black muni. But the same black men jt don't realize they have gay men those spac--that we've always been those spac.