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On 12 May, screenwrer Kirk A Moore took to his Twter page llg for his Black gay followers to share imag of themselv wh their Black now viral thread seemed like a simple requt, wh rackg up more than 3, 000 retweets and over 7, 600 lik as Black upl shared their photos together and Twter ers posted ment after ment sharg their joy engagg wh the thread celebratg diverse body shap, sk ton, ag and regnal a rponse to a ment on the post shortly after went live, Moore revealed that his photo challenge had an even eper motivatn behd – to ll out the lack of visibily of Black upl across TV, film and other forms of media. Everywhere, ” Moore wrote his reply to the ment, a statement easily supported by a quick asssment of the makp of gay upl across both TV shows and films beg produced by major studs and gay male upl rema a rare occurrence across Hollywood TV and film productns. More regularly, Black gay characters are paired wh non-Black partners, wh the most proment pairgs ma of Black and whe or Black and Lato partners.
All Rights are a handful of productns that have centered Black gay upl – like the Amy Award-wng film Moonlight, which was wrten by the Black gay screenwrer Tarell Alv McCraney and directed by Barry Jenks. But typilly Black gay characters and their relatnships are relegated to B storyl, if they receive any te velopment or cln a script at all. ”But the absence of narrativ about Black gay upl on major entertament platforms, stead pennt TV shows, web seri and movi have filled this reprentatn gap over the past two Logo seri Noah’s Arc is an sential piece of Black gay TV history and regularly referenced example of the long-lastg fluence of the Black queer productns.
The groundbreakg show was the first scripted seri to feature an all-Black gay ensemble st and storyl that centered Black gay experienc. It remas the only scripted seri om a major work to center a st of Black gay ’s Arc, which was created by Patrik Ian Polk, ially started as a web seri, wh the one-hour pilot episo beg penntly produced by Polk and released 2004 onle. ”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.
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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. “At that time, I felt like Noah’s Arc kda of vered one aspect of [the Black gay experience] and DL Chronicl vered another.
So I was like, ‘We’ve never seen the [Black gay] characters or stori [centered] this kd of a set-up.
’”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. The show has been praised for prentg characters that directly challenge the genr exprsn l that regularly n be faced by Black queer men – prentg romantic love stori between both gay and bi Black men om var genr exprsn vantage pots that have ronated wh viewers and led to the seri beg picked up by gay Black-owned gay streamg service SlayTV after the release of the seri’ first spe their impact for the Black queer muny, the die productns ntue to face challeng. Black and Sexy TV and SlayTV follow a siar streamg bs mol – which is basilly a morn take on the straight-to-DVD and pay-per-view webse mols ed by many Black gay die seri to fund their productns the early 2000s through the early 2010s.
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Photograph: Atlaspix/Alamy Stock PhotoPierre’s work velopg, wrg, directg, promotg and moizg the die productns foced on Black gay men and Black gay love has often left him trated the overall procs – an experience that has been echoed by other Black gay die TV and film creators.
But for now, Pierre is ntug to e the lsons he’s learned over his two s as a film-maker to ntue to evolve as a storyteller and bsman, most recently wh his seri Between Blunts and Love Songs and Betiful Cel Thgs which portray the nuance of Black gay love stori a rehg way and reprents his art a more thentic means than his biggt show Freefall ever did. ”And after playg a major role one of the all-time bt know Black gay seri, Stephens has a straightforward missn – to keep celebratg the bety and universaly of Black gay men and their love stori through his work.