Though Artem Kolov, a Rsian vlist, realized he was gay at age five, took him another 18 years before he me out to his fay, iends and, ultimately, the world.
Contents:
- HOW I TOLD RSIA I WAS GAY
- GENTLEMEN’S CORNER: GARY GRAY TALKS PLAYG A GAY MAN AND WORKG ALONGSI MO’NIQUE ‘BLACKBIRD’
- AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY, A RSIAN VLIST'S NEW REALY
HOW I TOLD RSIA I WAS GAY
Gray) and Crystal (Nikki Jane) joke wh him about his possibly beg gay, but spe his feverish homoerotic dreams and moony star at the hunk Todd (Torrey Laamar), Randy ni and rists his impuls. Entertament/Urban Movie ChannelAt an dn for a stunt film about gay rape, Randy meets another actor, Marshall (Kev Allee), a gay 21-year-old who liv a trailer park wh his acceptg parents.
GENTLEMEN’S CORNER: GARY GRAY TALKS PLAYG A GAY MAN AND WORKG ALONGSI MO’NIQUE ‘BLACKBIRD’
Marshall teach Randy to embrace his longgs, and Randy is off on a voyage of sexual disvery that clus viss to a cisg spot, a gay-iendly bar and Marshall’s bed. Turns out this is jt a wet dream, one of many that Randy will have throughout the film, which sometim clus guys knockg on his wdow and askg, “Is this a gay party or n a dirty straight boy jo ?
The dream motif actually turns out to be one of the Patrik-Ian Polk film’s least hackneyed vic; after all, a gay boy the most stiflg of closets (this spe the realns of Randy’s Joan Crawford eyebrows) n only gasp for air the unnsc. While this gospel Glee of a movie about gay alienatn has s share of wty l (“What do they teach you straight boys, nothg? She slaps Randy the face when he eats the pie she’s baked for her missg dghter, and arms herself wh a baseball bat when fdg irrefutable proof that he’s gay.
AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY, A RSIAN VLIST'S NEW REALY
To add to the film’s TMZ-triggered problems, havg Isaiah “Not-Your-Ltle-Faggot” Washgton, as Randy’s father, play the one gay-iendly voice an ocean of homophobic hysteria is an embarrassgly forced mea culpa.
In s bt moments, Blackbird exus the cheeks of But I’m a Cheerlear, as Randy meetg a bona-fi gay, Marshall (Kev Allee), who hers him toward his first sex-cisg experience at a park late at night. ” But for a film that wants to be somethg of a teen mil, a g-of-age story, and a gay fairy tale all at once, ’s too often bogged down by an unnecsarily somber subplot about Randy’s sister, which never que fs the narrative, and worn-out imag of J eaks tryg to pray the gay away through exorcism. Ined, beg a closeted black gay boy Mississippi is surely suffotg, but Blackbird is, like s ma character, too naïve to unrstand or, at least, to ploy the reparative powers of mp.