The wrer-director explas why his play about young Black gay men is tled after the movie about Black women iends.
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Q&A WH ANTHONY GREEN, GAY NDIDATE FOR ATLANTA CY COUNCIL AT-LARGE POST
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When Boys Exhale is a grippg and touchg story of three young Black gay men and their ternnectg iendships. Three of the play’s four characters are gay Black men their twenti — Jonathan, Andre, and Khalil — and the fourth is Jonathan’s mother.
So much about the play reflects the liv of, and speaks to, young gay Black men. How would you scribe the play to gay Black men who haven’t seen yet? But if ’s someone Gen Z, I scribe as a celebratn of Black gay iendship.
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The play feels very personal and specific, full of tths about iendship and timate relatnships that a theater lover who is not a young gay Black man would readily regnize. We had people om the lol HBCUs brgg their stunts om their gay-straight alliance.
The play is very centered on the monaly between the Black female experience and the Black gay male experience.
Black gay men see ourselv those women’s stggl; alg wh no good men, munal procsg of trma, havg kiki ssns to strs, and stgglg wh tersectnaly an opprsive patriarchal society. The gays love to emulate that bond.
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I’ve always loved gay culture general how oftentim our iendships emulate the female iendship bond, bee male iendships have always been so distant to me. I haven’t seen that unique aspect of gay culture really explored a lot media, but I wanted to celebrate . I really wanted that aspect bee so many on-screen gay relatnships are sexually or attractn driven.
Like When Jonathan and his mom are havg that exchange and she tells him how much she’ll always love him, I’ve seen a theater full of gay men sobbg.
So many adult gay men have never heard that om their mom. I’m always aaid anytime I do somethg wh Black gay characters puttg HIV bee I don’t wanna stigmatize.