Gay movie moonlight
Moonlight - DVD
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When I was tiny, I remember going to Nigeria and feeling terrified while walking through the marketplace. It was the first hour I had met with so many non-able-bodied people. In retrospect, I verb seeing so many unique and distinct people challenged my perception of what I considered normal, inciting my anxiety response. Many of these ideas of normalcy have been established by the Global North, and it is these same ideas that continue to perpetuate stigmas and intolerance amongst groups viewed as degenerative. Looking at the movie Moonlight (2016) canshed light on how the Global North’s ideas about queer identity can aid and abet the marginalization of Queer people, which ultimately serves to maintain hegemony—or the social influence exerted by a dominant group.
Moonlight is a coming-of-age film that explores how notions of “the Queer” in one’s community often lead to the marginalization of those who subscribe to said identity, ultimately serving to maintain hegemony. In the film, the exploration of the character Chiron gives us a lens into queerness. He represents q
Gay, Black, and Revolutionary: The Importance of 'Moonlight'
The latest Academy Award for Best Picture was earned by a film depicting the story of a poor, gay, black boy in South Florida. Moonlight, by director Barry Jenkins, has achieved great recognition for its beautiful and honest depiction of a storyline which challenges itself at every turn. Its protagonist, Chiron, grows up in the crude environment of Liberty City, Florida, surrounded by the expectations of masculinity and malice, which have been embedded in his community and thus forced upon him. The story is told in three chapters, each exploring a different identity for the protagonist: the shy and humiliated Little, the struggling and conflicted adolescent Chiron, and the quiet yet menacing Black. These three personas are a continuation of Chiron’s life, but they are their hold individual characters facing their own struggles. At its core, Moonlight cannot be simply described as a movie about drugs or violence. Its depiction of issues regarding societal pressures and familial relations is so immensely intr
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Throughout my life I’ve struggled with what it meant to be simultaneously black and gay. Though my racial and sexual identity weigh equally on my overall being, it’s easy to see them as sometimes at odds with each other. In our society, both “blackness” and “gayness” have commonly been dealt with in monolithic terms, and I experience a constant pressure to pick one over the other.
When ebony men denounce one of the most prominent activists of the #BLACKLIVESMATTER movement simply because he’s openly gay, I struggle to watch where I fit into the dark community. But when white men mandate that “No Blacks” message them on dating apps, I struggle just as much to notice where I fit into the gay community. I understand that I verb at the intersection of both identities, but sometimes it can feel prefer being black and gay is to live in between two mutually exclusive wholes.
It’s for this reason that I was as scared as I was excited to see Moonlight, the second film by Barry Jenkins, who previou