I totally lived in Sunnydale for a good chunk of my youth). I was a ’90s latchkey kid with childhood TV as a huge after-school teacher (and don’t even get me started on Buffy. Granted, none of this was conscious our preferences are rarely shaped by conscious decision making. The image of those two white boys became my image of what it meant to be gay and the pinnacle achievement of a happy life.
It’s a seminal teen film about love and at 13, it was my perfect vision of what gay life would be like. The first gay movie I ever saw was Beautiful Thing, a tale of two English teenaged boys caught up in the midst of a gloriously musical Mama Cass love-affair. We’re not considered sexy either #GayMediaSoWhite /P4LvOKCiCqĪ promotional shot from the 1996 gay, English, coming-of-age gay romance Beautiful Thing.Īs a Black same gender loving man, I know the struggle of self-love and dating in a community that prizes White bodies above all others. That original tweet they still haven’t apologized to for /Bg7sY4SCukĮven straight guys get covers before we do #GayMediaSoWhite /3adrXpZ3iE
