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Contents:
- BLACK, GAY AND GRAYG GRACEFULLY LOVE
- CNCHG THE NUMBERS ON BLACKS' VIEWS ON GAYS
- TOP 10 GAY BLACK ONLYFANS & HOTTT BBC GAY ONLYFANS 2023
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
- BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
- GAY BLACK MEN RARELY SAW THEMSELV ON SCREEN. MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS CHANGED THAT.
BLACK, GAY AND GRAYG GRACEFULLY LOVE
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“We jt want to let young gay people know that they n have somethg to look forward to when they get old, ” Phil said to me on the send-floor ck of their Amerin Foursquare on Detro’s Wt si, one of the greatt pris of their 50-year relatnship. ” We were troduced by Curtis Lipsb, the executive director of LGBT Detro (also featured the book), who, hearg me lament the arth of olr gay men my life, sisted that I meet this uple. The tablishment soon beme a popular spot for churchgoers, who wanted to hang out a welg space that wasn’t a is one set of patrons, however, whose memory hnts the uple to this day: In the weeks after they first went to bs the 1980s, a group of eight gay teenagers me to the rtrant every Sunday.
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”The group of iends started to drift apart soon moment provid a lson that has bee a guidg prciple for Mike and Phil as they’ve settled to old age: “More of olr gays need to talk to younger people like you, ” Phil tells me. And, as their neighborhood rapidly chang around them, they ntue to pour love to their home, still obssg over the layout of the wicker furnure set on the ck, or the ntrast of a bright red wall and a tufted, cream-lored len sofa their sun ’s been years sce I first ma photos wh Mike and Phil, but I still revis my early imag of them om time to time, an artifact om the day that I met my first olr gay Black uple. When Jason Colls, a journeyman NBA center, announced that he was gay, many mentators who appld his disclosure still nodd to the ia of heightened opposn to gay rights among black people.
"The hyper-mascule ials forced upon young black boys be wh the homophobia of the black church to create a perfect storm of shame and secrecy, " Rob Smh wrote at Salon, as he tailed his trmatic attempt to e out to his mother. " "Homophobia the black muny — ed, even among the lears of the civil rights movement of the 1960s — was some of the most vilent and stubborn of all, and there are still some who rent the equatn of the gay rights movement wh their stggle, " wrote Charl P.
You've got to hold a bunch of disparate ias your head at once; Lewis found that black folks are ls likely than whe people to believe that homosexualy is "not wrong at all" (25 percent to 40 percent).
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The "black church, " long held up as the vector for black opposn to homosexualy, clus many outspoken clergy members who have been stmental to same-sex marriage iativ.
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And spe the ntentn that the NBA is a haven of notorly antigay black men, the profsnal hoops universe has been nearly uniformly supportive of Colls' cisn to e out.
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BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
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” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.
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” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. 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. 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.
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”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.
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.
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. ’”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.
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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.
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.