Why Spike Lee's Gay Characters Are Problematic

Contents:

• WHY SPIKE LEE'S GAY CHARACTERS ARE PROBLEMATIC
• IS SPIKE LEE GAY?
• SPIKE LEE’S PROTéGé IS GAY?
• IN SPIKE LEE’S FUR NEW FILM, MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ IS STILL FIGHTG THE POWER

WHY SPIKE LEE'S GAY CHARACTERS ARE PROBLEMATIC

In the middle of the week, a wrer and black gay rights activist known as Anti-Intellect tweeted his opn about Spike Lee's 1988 film School Daze, which jt celebrated s 25th anniversary. Speakg out about his feelg that School Daze is unbalanced and accurate, Anti-Intellect tweeted, "Some fend @SpikeLee's homophobia School Daze sayg Blacks were homophobic back then.

IS SPIKE LEE GAY?

" Anti-Intellect immediately qutned Lee's jtifitn, tweetg skeptilly, "@SpikeLee isn't homophobic (so he says), but homophobia is School Daze bee everyone at Morehoe was homophobic when he attend? " The crilly acclaimed and ntroversial filmmaker then asked the wrer whether he had ever seen Lee's 1996 film Get On the B and whether he thought was homophobic. The Twter spat went on, dissectg the Morehoe College that School Daze was based on and whether or not the film offered a fair portrayal of the homophobia that existed at the Atlanta-based historilly black llege at the time.

I've never attend Morehoe College, so asi om referencg a few news stori that I've read, I n't addrs how welg an environment offers s gay stunts, but here I'm not really ncerned wh the homophobia-at-Morehoe bate. What I'm more ncerned wh is the fact that Lee tried to bolster his claim that he's not homophobic by potg to one gay-iendly film that he ma. Hontly, I don't thk Lee or his films are homophobic.

SPIKE LEE’S PROTéGé IS GAY?

Given that he played a huge role helpg Dee Re move forward wh her breakout film Pariah and has featured queer characters several of his films, cludg She's Gotta Have It, She Hate Me and Get On the B, I thk he's possibly an ally and has fely played a role givg visibily to lbian, bisexual and gay people. Wrg at the Huffgton Post, Glennisha Man, a self-scribed "queer woman of lor, " says she don't thk the filmmaker is homophobic, but that don't exce his lacklter reprentatn of LGBT people.

IN SPIKE LEE’S FUR NEW FILM, MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ IS STILL FIGHTG THE POWER

In the middle of the week, a wrer and black gay rights activist known as Anti-Intellect tweeted his opn about Spike Lee's 1988 film School Daze, which jt celebrated s 25th anniversary.

Speakg out about his feelg that School Daze is unbalanced and accurate, Anti-Intellect tweeted, "Some fend@SpikeLee's homophobia School Daze sayg Blacks were homophobic back then.

" …Hontly, I don't thk Lee or his films are homophobic. Given that he played a huge role helpg Dee Re move forward wh her breakout film Pariah and has featured queer characters several of his films, cludg She's Gotta Have It, She Hate Me and Get On the B, I thk he's possibly an ally and has fely played a role givg visibily to lbian, bisexual and gay people.