Of any show on televisn, the OWN seri lands neart to an hont reprentatn of my experience as a gay black man still stgglg wh what the church asked of me.
Contents:
- GAY LEAF
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
- MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
- GAYFEATHER (LIATRIS SPITA): CARE, GROWG GUI AND TYP (WH PICTUR)
GAY LEAF
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In a pivotal scene om the send episo Season 2 of the OWN TV seri Greenleaf, Grace Greenleaf (Merle Dandridge), the newly stalled associate pastor of the fictnal Memphis megachurch Calvary, approach Carlton Cise (Parnell Damone Marno) — the church’s out gay mic director — Carlton’s driveway. ”It’s a moment that monstrat what the show do bt: addrsg the church’s unrolved attu toward homosexualy a rehgly nuanced way. ”The seri provis an opportuny to terrogate the church’s unsteady stance on homosexualy.
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
See how the life and marriage of 'Greenleaf' character Kev Satterlee dramatilly changed as he me to realize that he was gay. * gay leaf *
Among my iends, a group prised mostly of gay black men, I still fd myself havg to reassure skeptics before they’ll give a try.
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
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When gay black men nsir Greenleaf, many of are reckong wh our own legaci of parture.
MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
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Bee when gay black men nsir Greenleaf, many of are reckong wh our own legaci of parture om ngregatns as tightly kn as the one picted the show — ngregatns that loved , but wanted our silence return, a mutg of the impulse that we believe to be immutable. I’ve had this nversatn among enough of my gay black iends the cy, the former sweet ltle boys om whichever Baptist or COGIC or CME Church, om whatever small Southern town they me om, to know how much they miss — the hand of Miss So-and-So on the nape of their neck, her “good job, baby”s. That’s a story I’d heard about black gay men throughout the South, or maybe felt their absence, until I regnized wrten my future, too.
The show seemed mted to unmaskg a toxic tenncy among some church muni to rpond to sexual asslt wh silence, and the show’s gay characters generally took a backseat to this gay character given the most airtime on Greenleaf last season was son--law Kev Satterlee (Tye Whe), the hband of the youngt Greenleaf dghter, Chary.
GAYFEATHER (LIATRIS SPITA): CARE, GROWG GUI AND TYP (WH PICTUR)
A Southern California school board on Friday adopted a social studi curriculum that clus gay rights that was approved by parents and teachers after ially rejectg . * gay leaf *
In last season’s fale, Kev grips a gay nversn pamphlet, tears, beggg Chary to stay the marriage.
U.K. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.K. ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.” * gay leaf *
Such moments, while dramatic, felt like a rehashg of the bloodls, undyg "down-low" narrative that sts gay men as negligent and ultimately selfish.
Found by Farnsworth Fe Cannabis, the new nonprof buted at Aspen Gay Ski Week. * gay leaf *
It’s the show’s ls eply explored gay thread about mic director Carlton, an out gay man reckong wh the spirual turmoil of stayg at Calvary hop of changg the stutn, that actually has more transformative potential for queer Carlton arriv Season 1, he don’t shrk om explag his bumpy reer trajectory: As an out gay man, he’s been fired twice om other lol ngregatns.
Though Kev had begun to appear spels by the end of last season, Carlton’s firg helped to st him a more sympathetic light, “bee we unrstand what n st a man to be gay and out wh this muny. Sudnly the dience has a new unrstandg of the pth of his sufferg and ’s easier to see why he n’t brg himself to tell his mother that he’s gay, even though she tus as such. Those were the on I looked up and down for exceptns, fdg a teenager, I accepted my place wh a legacy of partg, joed a tradn of gay black men a silent but stubborn dispute wh their mothers.
Black gay men have been leavg for s — the men a now-middle-aged Carlton might have grown up wh, men who fled their hom a generatn ago and often returned after years spent away ci, spng dis rerds and gowns om cloth and even whole new languag to beg. I remember them whenever a new vio of a gospel artist nmng my gay fay surfac — a whole generatn of men who were rebed, and then mourned, but too late.