Acclaimed film maker Lee Daniels states one of his next films will feature a gay action hero.
While speaking with Out Magazine, Daniels said that his next film will feature a gay action hero, played by Alex Pettyfer. Daniels describes the movie as a gay “Mr & Mrs Smith” but states, “we don’t find out they’re gay until the end of the movie.”
Daniels goes on to state “I don’t think I’m going to have a problem now. I made a $100 million for The Butler so I’m in a rare group. So this is something I feel good about. Oh and the gay action heroes are interracial, to boot. I have to find the right black guy opposite him”.
If this is true, I think this is a smart move. Meaning that the character’s sexuality may be in subtext and would not be the films sole focus. Hench Daniels saying “we don’t find out they’re gay until the end of the movie”. I also feel it’s a smart move to make the characters interracial to possibly appeal to a wider audience which could translate into box office dollars.
But leave it up to Ocky Williams to find something wrong here. If this film is produced into major theaters, this would not doubt be a great accomplishment; however I would just once love to see a functioning non-dysfunctional loving black gay couple within mainstream media.
This takes me back to the infamous Tyler Perry’s New Black Gay Sitcom “Tony and Dave” post I wrote over a year ago.
In it I stated;
currently there are no positive functional homosexual black or minority male couples on television. NONE. No positive examples to showcase who we really are. No examples to show other black gays of what a secure, functional, stable, happy relationship looks like. No examples for the black gay male youth to strive towards when it comes to what a positive gay long term relationship resembles.”
Right now there are no alternatives on television to the stereotypes that black gays are just gossiping, partying, promiscuous, HIV infected, vain, materialistic effeminate men who can’t maintain a relationship more than 3 months.
I strongly believe if there were more positive representations of homosexual black men in relationships in the media; it could eventually lead to a reduction in the spread of STD’s and lessen promiscuity, even if only by a small percentage. It could lead to more of us thinking highly of ourselves and not viewing our homo or bisexuality as something that is unnatural and can be prayed away.
Nope…my sentiments haven’t changed.
OckyDub
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“I would just once love to see a functioning non-dysfunctional loving black gay couple within mainstream media.”…
Ocky I hope you know that the words ‘non-dysfunctional’ don’t exist in a great t.v. series for todays audience. What you want to see is boring to viewers. Gone are the days where the t.v. is catered to the average middle class happy couple or family home where most of the conflict involved either naive kids, an annoying neighbor, or pestering family members (that’s soooo 80’s-90’s).
Today, honestly it’s not going to be enough that they’re gay, or even black. There has to be a “kink” somewhere in the system. We crave the drama, the ecstasy of a passionate forbidden romance, the fight of one’s moral sense and character, the thrill of danger and if it’s funny, a less masculine sidekick (or desperate female friend) will always help rack in the numbers (Will never had a very masculine friend).
Yes…I think the days of my wish coming true are far gone with today’s audience.
@ocky – I totally get it if not, but have u ever entertained the idea that maybe U have to be the one to bring this idea to fruition. Ur in a relationship. While I know Im in the minority (I didnt even kno there were other black gay non-porn sites besides rod2.0 until recently reading the activity stream, so I’m clearly behind…) but I also dont know of any functional gay black relationships. Maybe u n Prince are the martyrs of this as a visible reality. Just sayin…
So here we go.. 🙁
We have the first Black openly gay director who has achieved some success at the box office with titles like “Precious”, “The Butler”, “Paperboy” and other works – now he wants to use his clout to put forward a major film with ‘gay characters’. As I’ve mentioned once before, I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Lee Daniels and his personality and professionalism will instantly make you a fan, but I fear that his ‘love’ of white beautiful men may not give us Black gay folk the film we had been hoping to see.. I hope he proves me wrong.