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.