In reply to D.

These are valid points above, especially with the perspective of the majority ethnicity of who runs Hollywood film studios and the Media (i.e. predominantly White Jews). It’s is only today we are seeing an increased emergence of visible black writers and directors bringing more storytelling into the mainstream. However - even because of the historical context of black men and masculinity - and the white Hollywood majority - this is not a reason not to portray black on black gay characters and narratives. There were ZERO when I was growing up.

As the comment above says - we need more balanced and rounded portrayals of black on black gay characters on TV - and if we don’t want to characters written from a white perspective - then Black writers should tackle the topic more in the mainstream.

I don’t agree that because of the painful past it should remain an off limits subject - the fact that there are so few stories like this in mainstream film and TV is another reason why some of the black twitter comments are so outraged and offended - this is Black Mirror - an extremely popular and well written series that crossed racial divides into the black community and now its tackling a black on black gay story black people are offended they were served this narrative because of the reasons above relating to governmental institutional racism, the historical context and Hollywood white majority.

But again, this is not a reason for the narrative to be off topic. You can still be aware of the above and have the story told well by black writers (not sensationalised like Lee Daniels on Empire). And if you don’t like the story because it starts evolving into a gay plot line switch it off before the end.

Finally, someone commented about the use of language terms like "gas ass shit". On the one hand if you don’t have any openly gay people in your community, work or family who are accepted and respected you’re going to default to not speaking about them in a way that relays respect - this is more ignorance and homophobia than anything and needs to be tackled with better role models of visible balanced and rounded black mainstream gay men.

And yes - I am a black gay man.