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Contents:

• 'MOONLIGHT' : A MT-SEE DRAMA ABOUT A GAY BLACK BOY AND THE MAN HE BE — AND HOP TO BEE
• IN 'MOONLIGHT,' GROWG UP BLACK, GAY AND POOR IN 1980S MIAMI
• 'THE INSPECTN' HIGHLIGHTS A GAY BLACK MARE'S EXPERIENCE UNR 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'
• WHY LOGIC CHOSE A GAY BLACK TEEN'S STGGLE FOR '1-800-273-8255' MIC VIO (EXCLIVE)
• CHILD STAR STGGLED TO E OUT AFTER PLAYG ‘THE GAY KID’ ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’
• GAY BLACK MEN RARELY SAW THEMSELV ON SCREEN. MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS CHANGED THAT.

'MOONLIGHT' : A MT-SEE DRAMA ABOUT A GAY BLACK BOY AND THE MAN HE BE — AND HOP TO BEE

Director Barry Jenks has somehow figured out how to envelop this turbulent story — a poor black boy endur soul-srrg r of passage as he grows up to be a very troubled gay man — an atmosphere that’s achgly tenr and even betiful. Then we meet him as an adolcent (Ashton Sanrs) who experienc a brief, idyllic moment of gay timacy on a beach wh another stunt.

The narrative and even the physil gap between the adolcent and fully adult Chirons, for one thg, is nsirable, possibly too nsirable, and the homoeroticism is relatively chaste.

IN 'MOONLIGHT,' GROWG UP BLACK, GAY AND POOR IN 1980S MIAMI

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.

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'THE INSPECTN' HIGHLIGHTS A GAY BLACK MARE'S EXPERIENCE UNR 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'

LGBTQ+ them are not central to the plot of this 2022 Disney feature but the character Ethan is gay and openly smten wh his iend Strange World, rated PG, on Disney+.

WHY LOGIC CHOSE A GAY BLACK TEEN'S STGGLE FOR '1-800-273-8255' MIC VIO (EXCLIVE)

Inially shocked, Daniel asks how long he’s known he’s gay to which Tyler asks “How long have you known you’re straight? The only plitn is that he hasn’t e out to him as gay. Everybody’s Talkg About JamieMax Harwood as VioBased on a te story, Everybody’s Talkg About Jamie is a mil that follows Jamie, a gay boy livg northern England who dreams of beg a drag queen.

CHILD STAR STGGLED TO E OUT AFTER PLAYG ‘THE GAY KID’ ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’

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GAY BLACK MEN RARELY SAW THEMSELV ON SCREEN. MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS CHANGED THAT.

It's a stark remr of what was once wily believed (and sadly still is by too many) about homosexualy.

Multihyphenate filmmaker Elegance Bratton said his latt project, “The Inspectn, ” about a gay homels Black man who jos the Mar, hs pecially close to home after he was kicked out as a teenager for beg gay and spent a livg on the streets. The film, which is loosely based on Bratton’s life, foc on the challeng the ma character, Ellis French, experienc as a young gay Black man durg the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” era. The policy, which was effect between 1994 and 2011, banned gay and lbian service members om servg openly the armed forc.

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"A24Bratton said he tapped Unn for the role of his homophobic mother bee of Unn’s “artistry, activism, and she’s also a superstar that everyone the world knows.