Want to Keep Up With ? LIKE Us On Facebook!īeing worried that your children will be exposed to gay couples as if it’s an intrusive, viral concept they need to be shielded from is homophobia. While this is admirable, as with most heterosexual men accused of harboring homophobic thoughts, Lee seems to be much more comfortable discussing lesbian, Black women as opposed to gay, Black men. Lee continued to share that he had to learn that the LGBT community wasn’t any more monolithic than the Black community and that the making of the film was a growing experience for him. In a revealing 2004 interview with The Advocate, Lee freely admitted to viewing the world from a myopic, cisgender hetero-lens, and said that he hired Taormino to “red flag that stuff” so that lesbian viewers would truly feel that the film was a realistic depiction of their reality. But just because I have a character in a film who’s homophobic, that doesn’t mean I’m homophobic,” Lee said. “There were some people who got mad at me because I had characters in my films who were homophobic. Painfully aware of the criticisms hanging over his head, for his comedy, She Hates Me, starring Kerry Washington as a lesbian so desperate to have a baby that she and her girlfriend hire her ex-boyfriend to father their child, Lee hired lesbian sex-writer Tristan Taormino to ensure that the script wasn’t speaking from a heteronormative perspective. SEE ALSO: ‘Django’ Humor: ‘SNL’ Skit Includes Spoof Of Mandingo Fight Scene Gridiron Dinner: President Obama Cracks Joke About Marco Rubio’s Water Moment
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