Black queer actors discuss the daunting realities and double standards sometimes placed on them to make it in Hollywood and being unapologetically real about their ongoing struggle for inclusion and representation.
Like it’s subject, this is a thoroughly entertaining and eye-opening documentary that explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music.
After Crystal Thorn, a professor and mom married to an NBA Executive, learns that her cancer has returned with a vengeance, she confronts her truths, determines what's truly best for her family, and lives out loud while refusing to ask her family’s permission to forego a treatment that could save her life. Crystal’s defiance forces […]
A Lisbon Affair Long time lovers on an afternoon walk disclose the emotional tension of their bond. Always After his wife experiences several miscarriages, Kevin, a devoted husband struggles to make his wife happy and must a find a way to keep his marriage intact. Expiration Date Jesse, a young doctor, meets a construction worker […]
"Roux's Blues: Promise Me, You'll Be There" follows the journey of a Black queer millennial named Roux, as he balances personal and professional life, maintains friendships, explores sexuality and deals with mishaps and misfortune associated with a recent break-up. We get to explore intimate relationships, support, lack of access to resources, health equity, integrity, and what life looks like in the attempt to grow. "Roux's Blues" is an ode to self-care.
A Lisbon Affair Long time lovers on an afternoon walk disclose the emotional tension of their bond. Always After his wife experiences several miscarriages, Kevin, a devoted husband struggles to make his wife happy and must a find a way to keep his marriage intact. Expiration Date Jesse, a young doctor, meets a construction worker […]
"Roux's Blues: Promise Me, You'll Be There" follows the journey of a Black queer millennial named Roux, as he balances personal and professional life, maintains friendships, explores sexuality and deals with mishaps and misfortune associated with a recent break-up. We get to explore intimate relationships, support, lack of access to resources, health equity, integrity, and what life looks like in the attempt to grow. "Roux's Blues" is an ode to self-care.
Like it’s subject, this is a thoroughly entertaining and eye-opening documentary that explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music. Shining a clarifying light on the Black, queer origins of rock ’n’ roll, it establishes the genre’s big bang: Richard Wayne Penniman, better known as Little Richard. Testimonials from legendary musicians and cultural figures, Black and queer scholars, Richard’s family and friends, and interviews with the artist himself all exuberantly reclaim a history that was willfully appropriated by white artists and institutions. Gems amongst the treasure trove of rarely seen archival footage of Penniman, are scenes with his Black and queer predecessors and contemporaries, like Sister Rosetta Tharpe: the mother of rock ’n’ roll who gave 14-year-old Richard his first break. Other footage gives testimony to Richard’s greatness and well-deserved placement of one of the 20th Century’s unsurpassed, spectacular showmen. But Penniman’s complex journey depicts a conflicted revolutionary who careened between religion, sex, and rock ’n’ roll, navigating the extreme tensions of race and sexuality of his time and we are reminded that outsiders and outcasts can possess superpowers that, given the chance, can create new worlds for us all.
