That Gay Thread

[The Architect Of Fate]

But they're still black, just also gay, so clearly it was never whitey keeping straight black men from winning.

Not to mention it's still an arbitrary standard

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Because Best Picture is the most prestigious award, and the only movies with black male main characters to win it in forever, just coincidentally were gay.

And also worth noting, from a cinephile, a lot of the movies that win Best Picture tend to not hold up very well. Look at the list of the movies to win the award since you were born and see how many you actually remember. In the estimation of a guy whose room has literally hundreds of DVDs, I'd say that the Academy only got the Best Picture right thrice since I was born. (Unforgiven, Birdman, and Parasite; Maybe add Silence of the Lambs to that list if it could be shared with Beauty and the Beast)

Yeah winning the Oscars isn't actually proof the picture is the "best" so as a mark of representation it's a nonsensical bar, Also the winner being gay means nothing.

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So let's just acknowledge the fact their plenty of straight black representation in media both statically and otherwise. Because it doesn't meet a hyper-specific criteria means nothing.