Contents:
- IN 'MOONLIGHT,' GROWG UP BLACK, GAY AND POOR IN 1980S MIAMI
- ‘IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO BE VULNERABLE’: HOW MOONLIGHT REFLECTS BEG A BLACK GAY MAN THE US
IN 'MOONLIGHT,' GROWG UP BLACK, GAY AND POOR IN 1980S MIAMI
Chiron is a gay black boy who grows up a world that don’t re about gay black boys. Hibbert as Chiron, a young black man growg up gay an impoverished part of Miami Moonlight. It's an thentic, timate portra of a young, gay black man whose mother is a crack addict.
He was not gay, and he played football.
Terrel easily p om Chiron's grasp and assur him that he's not gay. In the first act of the film, we learn that the other boys bully Chiron bee they thk he is gay. Chiron himself do ask Juan about beg gay, but only bee of a slur the other boys ll him, however Juan tells him 's okay to be gay — jt to not let them ll him slurs.
‘IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO BE VULNERABLE’: HOW MOONLIGHT REFLECTS BEG A BLACK GAY MAN THE US
In the film's send act, viewers learn more fely that Chiron is gay, as he is jt startg to unrstand his sexualy. It tells the story of Chiron, a gay, black boy growg up poor Miami, and follows him through his teenage years to adulthood. “Beg a black man Amerin is relatively difficult right now, beg a gay man Ameri is credibly difficult and so beg a black, gay man, like I’ve said before, n be perceived as the worst possible thg right now.
They key to playg Chiron, he says, was not to assume a difference between beg gay and beg straight. “One of my bt iends is homosexual so I knew his stggle, but wasn’t about pullg om that. I am no way homophobic, but jt saw somethg else the movie.
Dpe renewed lls for people to judge the film on s own importance, the distrsg accatns of rape agast Parker – s star, as well as wrer and director – have meant s red-rpet-to-awards glory is lookg nsirably ls no movie was perhaps ever more sorely required to prevent another #OsrsSoWhe than Moonlight: Barry Jenks’s drama trackg a black gay man at three stag over his film has had an extraordary embrace on the tumn ftival circu; s brilliance has left few stumblg out of the cema unmoved. It is a sentiment that, oddly, echo that of Parker, who claimed he would never play a gay character bee of the need to “prerve black masculy”.