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Happy pride month to everyone out there. This video i sit down and discuss my and some friends of mines views on LGBT films.!!! Enjoy
Starmother- I feel like we are in an age where there are more BIPOC LGBT stories that are giving people the meet cutes and the mild drama without the trauma but also in the modern state of conservative movements across the world a lot of stories are still leaning into the trauma of being LGBT because it still is traumatic to be so for a lot of BIPOC members of the alphabet community. I for one love a good tragedy though because it reminds me why we fight for more. We as a whole can move away from them when we as a whole have moved away from the gay bashing, and internalized shame leading to suicides, when no kid is worried about being outed and kicked out of their home or attacked by their parents, or mostly when BIPOC LGBT get to live the soft lives that some of rhe white lgbt peoples get to live
Rumeal -Favorite one ever would probably be Noah’s Arc Jumping The Broom
One I didn’t like Not Another Gay Movie. I appreciate them, but I don’t like when they lean too heavily into stereotypes.
Lashawn-I’ll be honest, I don’t really watch a lot of gay movies because the ones I watch, I keep singing the same old trend and tropes of storyline. It’s like the coming out, the difficulties, the struggle with your sexuality, which yes, that’s important, but it got to the point where it felt formulaic, like I want to see, you know, alternate versions where your sexuality isn’t defined of who you are as solely defined who you are as a person, or I would like to see a positive, corrective promotion where being of the LGBTQ spectrum could be seen as normal like every other day. Like it’s just not a big thing. I hope I hope you understand what I’m what I meant.
Zaquan- Honestly, I feel pretty okay with gay and queer films that are made. But I’m also watch kind of a lot of lesser known things and I’ve been watching these things since I was in high school so I know of a few more things that aren’t necessarily mainstream that definitely helped me kind of getting a better grasp on what like the gay and queer community honor or can be in different aspects of it. I definitely can see how people can be upset especially by Pac people with gay and queer media nowadays. Movies nowadays. Just for a the lack of everything not being like a trauma piece But like there are movies. Even new movies like Bottoms that old girl from Fuck. The show on FX that has the guy from Shameless. Um and she plays like it’s a coming of age for a lesbian girl. And I was just watching sex education the other day. Even though I guess technically that’s not movie. But still think that we have a decent amount and it’s very wide range. I would say I just wish they’re gay and queer films were a lot more mainstream.
Nico-When I think of gay film & I narrow it down to that category for a reason even though most lgbt films follow this trope “you aren’t allowed to be happy unless a white man is in it”. Yes films centering white gay men have had tragedies, but they’re given the grace of it being known that they are 3 dimensional people who can range in their interests. There are gay horror movies, comedies, romance films, there’s even gay holiday movies. The other side of that coin essentially teaches Black & POC viewers that unless their love interest in the film is white or the supporting cast is filled with majority white actors / “sanitized POC” (looking at you fire island) then you should only be relegated to “trauma films” that show the world about “your struggle” even though black & POC people are not a monolith and live extremely different lives, but we’re never given that same grace to be seen as humans who enjoy a variety of genres. The only black gay comedy that did not have a dark twist has literally been Noah’s Ark. 10-12 years ago?