Derrick L. Middleton’s Shape Up: Gay the Black Barbershop explor the hypermascule attus that keep so many young gay black men om livg their thentic liv this cril space of black culture.
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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”
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SHAPE UP: GAY THE BLACK BARBERSHOP
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FILMMAKER EXPLOR CHALLENG OF BEG 'GAY THE BLACK BARBERSHOP'
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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.