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HOW HOLLYWOOD HID ROCK HUDSON, ITS BIGGT GAY MOVIE STAR
The seri has never shied away om beg as gay as wants to be (’s on the CW, so that’s very gay™) but the addn of a Black lead means that they get to explore thgs a way they’ve never done before. Even though the documentary is a celebratn of the fashn, culture and pageantry of drag also lv to tough tersectnal issu of race, class, homophobia and the experienc of trans people the 1980s.
We may all be done wh the gay bt iend trope, but Shane Evans (Griff Matthews) is so much more than that. The seri featur much of the same st, many of which have queer d vib (wh Kirt beg the only member of the group that’s explicy gay), but those implitns may be more bee of the Gen Z feel of the show than any direct tentns om the wrers. When Max (née HBO Max) first lnched, was for the gays and the gays only.
Comg of AgeEasily one of the ft Bt Picture wners recent memory, Barry Jenks’ magnum op tells one gay Black man’s g-of-age story unfettably imprsnistic, tenr ways. Moonlight marked a major cultural turng pot how Black queer stori were told onscreen, beg the first gay film wh an all-Black st to take home the Amy’s top prize.