How "Black Mirror" Explores Black Queerness

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The "Black Mirror" season five premiere is unique because black, queer male identity is rarely portrayed in media. Malik Little, host of HIM Podcast breaks down why such characters are necessary.

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00:00We're taught to think you have to be straight or you have to be gay.

00:22So people really don't understand like the spectrum of like sexuality and how fluid it

00:28can be.

00:45It was my very first time ever seeing the show and I thought it did a great job at expressing

00:52like what a bisexual narrative would look like between two gay men or two black men.

01:00And I don't think people always understand like what bisexuality really looks like and

01:05what it is.

01:07And that you can be like physically in love with one sex and still like be in love or

01:11have sex with the opposite sex.

01:33Just now we're starting to see black queer people loving black queer people on camera

01:40in the media whereas generally before it was specifically interracial or just you know

01:49white queer people loving white queer people.

01:51By erasure that is a real thing and I think that we need like pieces like Moonlight and

02:02Black Mirror to you know usher those conversations in.

02:06What I'm happy about now is that the new shows that are coming out and just like the media

02:12that we see now really shows the spectrum.

02:17Like you see trans women and men, you see gay men and women, you see people that are

02:26non-binary and that's what I love about what's being produced now.

02:33As opposed to back in the day where there was just like white queer men.

02:38So I love now that everybody has like a space.

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