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A CONVERSATN ABOUT BEG BLACK AND GAY WH COREY ANDREW
In my sophomore year, I took a film class, and one of the first films we studied was Gus Who's Comg to Dner, which starred Sidney Poier, Kathare Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Kathare Houghton, and Isabel Sanford, who would go on to play Louise Jefferson The Jeffersons. Poier's civil rights activism and filmography arguably set the stage for early gay cema, sce the LGBTQ+ muny followed siar trop.
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It's not a cince that gay characters began to appear on TV and film the 1970s, soon after Poier beme a hoehold name and was weled to hom via the characters he played the 1960s. In my sophomore year, I took a film class, and one of the first films we studied was Gus Who’s Comg to Dner, which starred Sidney Poier, Kathare Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Kathare Houghton, and Isabel Sanford, who would go on to play Louise Jefferson The Jeffersons. Poier’s civil rights activism and filmography arguably set the stage for early gay cema, sce the LGBTQ+ muny followed siar trop.