Black Actors in Gay Roles: Film and TV LGBT Characters. Who says black Americans are homophobic? Those who want to blame black people for anti-gay America that’s who? We are, of course, not saying that there are no black folks who are anti-gay. Like other races, some of them can be pretty stupid too when it comes to gender preference and sexuality.
But we were SHOCKED when, a few years back, some people pointed fingers at “the blacks” when marriage equality was voted down in California. That was some serious blame-shifting. Instead of blaming the right culprit — Christian conservatives and conservative Republicans — some stupid people blamed African-Americans for the anti-gay vote.
But this is now water under the bridge. Thankfully, marriage equality is now the law of the land in the good ole U.S. of A. Anyhoo, we made a list of black actors movie roles which, to us, is an indicator that black people are not averse to playing (or watching) LGBT characters.
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