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.
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HOW ‘GREEN BOOK’ GIV SHORT SHRIFT TO A GAY LIFE
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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.
GAY & LBIAN CONSUMER INX STUDY
CMI's LGBT Consumer Inx is a prehensive and mographilly reprentative LGBT nsumer study wh over 30,000 survey participants. This report explor motivatns, preferenc and sensivi, and tracks nsumer trends the gay and lbian market. * lgbt green book *
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. This report explor motivatns, preferenc and sensivi, and tracks nsumer trends the gay and lbian market. Nducted an onle survey of self-intified gay men and lbians om CMI’s proprietary survey panel, as well as participants poted to the survey om a variety of partners.
For the purpos of this report, those participants who self-intified as “queer, ” “transgenr” or “bisexual” were not clud the analys unls they also intified as lbian or gay. Of the over 30, 000 total survey participants worldwi this year, more than 21, 000 were gay and lbian Amerins, who are the subject of this report (although not all qutns were answered by every person bee of personal preference or survey logic). In 2008, the survey pared the nsumer spendg habs and opns regardg social issu for gay men and lbians.