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HOW ‘GREEN BOOK’ GIV SHORT SHRIFT TO A GAY LIFE
The film’s treatment of Don Shirley’s sexualy beli the difficult reali that gay men of lor like Jsie Smollett face to this day. * mahershala ali gay *
The scene as a shock: Shirley has been largely solo most of the film, and there is no ditn until then that he is eher gay (ed, there is mentn of a past marriage to a woman) or bisexual. Tony dit he’s acceptg of gay people om his time workg New York nightclubs.
A few weeks ago Jsie Smollett, a star of the Fox show “Empire” and a sger-songwrer, was hospalized after he was attacked Chigo by two men shoutg racial and homophobic slurs at him, acrdg to a police statement. (Ined other lbian, gay and trans people of lor face siar threats. And by not explorg Shirley’s lived experience, the film allows to move past the threat that he, Smollett and others aren’t many black and gay characters popular films and shows today.
Wh that drama wng the Amy Award for bt picture jt two years ago (and wh Ali wng bt supportg actor for his role as a sympathetic adult a gay black boy’s life), “Green Book” feels like a Shirley’s fay has been outspoken about how the film mischaracteriz him and his relatnship to them. ” Photograph: Sebastian Nevols/The GuardianTowards the end of the movie, the actor livers a big, weepy scene the ra which Shirley opens up, about what is to be black and gay, and so doubly ferr the ey of 1960s society. He’d hoped for actor was his agent’s office when he first read the script for Moonlight, a heavily tobgraphil work by the playwright Tarell Alv McCraney about a Miami schoolboy lled Chiron, persecuted for beg gay.