Moonlight is one of the century’s best films, going way beyond the realm of LGBTQ contents.
The story follows a gay black man, Chiron, through three stages of his early life, along with his struggles with self-acceptance, bullying, and his mother’s addiction to crack cocaine. Black gay men rarely get this kind of screen portrayal — the kind that shows them with haunting and joyful complexity and receives glowing reviews from top critics and even Best Picture Oscar.
In a time when so many of the topics addressed by the film — poverty, the school-to-prison pipeline, homophobia — remain real issues all over the U.S. it is both a need and privilege to have a film like Moonlight.
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