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Bill Duke's new film on "Downlow Men"
Legendary actor Bill Duke (American Gigolo, Get Rich or Die Tryin') was interviewed by POZ Magazine about his upcoming film Cover. Cover (which Duke directed) is an all-too-familiar (recycled?) story of "men on the DL", and is due in theatres this fall. Over the past few years Duke received many complaints from the black LGBT community that the film will continue to inflate myths and criminalize black men "on the down low". Duke stresses, "[Cover] does not condemn anyone’s sexual behavior, it emphasizes responsibility. No matter what your preference, you have an obligation to your partner." Well, that is challenging to believe considering that one of the early trailers (when the film was called Invisible -- you can also watch the clip below) for the film looks like it's another homo-horror flick. Every time the "DL" scenes are shown, the lights are lowered, creepy music plays, a distraught women is in tears and before you know it, the oversexed homo is killing off all the black women in the free world with HIV/AIDS! Toward the end of the trailer an embarrassingly incorrect statistic reads, "70% of these women have contracted HIV", which implies that 70% of black women contracted HIV from men on the down low. Looks like it could be a misinformed disaster in the making, and one that many people could blindly fall for. At the very least, the trailer aims embarrassingly low -- let's hope that this is just a poor marketing decision and not the makings of another Cruising. The film stars Vivica A. Fox and Patti LaBelle, two popular figures in the black LGBT community. Hopefully this project will not create too much backlash ... I don't know what I would do with myself if the gays no longer loved Patti! Submitted by on Wed, 2007-06-20 11:39. |
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Miss Patti and Aunt ViVi co-signed on for this rubbish?
Self-parody
It looks like a parody of itself ... how could anybody take that seriously?
My "favorite" part was when he slammed his hand down on the table ... "Oh My God, it's .... his key!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
"Down Low" Is Not Just A Black Thing
Respect. When you give it, you get it.
It seems strange to me that this entire "down low" business is being put on black and hispanic men! Go to any rest stop, known gay cruising area in the world and you'll see predominately WHITE married men looking for male/male sex.
I've lived and travelled, world-wide, and you find "down low" behavior in x-rated movie theatres, YMCA's, known gay crusing areas, etc. and white men are the majority.
It seems that because a black man wrote a book on the subject about something he knew to be happening with some black men, the label "down low" has been placed squarely on the backs of black men only.
Just ask New York gay men. There are "down low" men everywhere and in every ethnic group you can imagine. Take a trip in Manhattan to the waterfront some night. You'll see cars from NJ, Conn., PA swarming to pick up young male runaways. Behind the wheels in these cars are predominately WHITE MARRIED MALES.
Bill Dukes' new movie, COVER, attempts to place AIDS right into the laps of gay men...as if they created it. Also, expressing that str8 men who give their wives and girlfriends AIDS got the desease from gay men!
Latino men are notorious for "down low" activity. They will tell you, "it's cultural." Many have sex with other men, get up, and proudly state, "I'm straight. Just because I had sex with you doesn't make me gay."
The society makes men afraid to say that they are gay or "bi." The societal ignorance of this country tells the general population that they MUST HATE SOMEBODY. Before, it was blacks, now it's not socially acceptable to openly hate them, so let's hate gay people.
These "sexually confused" men are not that 'confused.' They know what their bodies are telling them to do and they do it.
Unfortunately, the society tells them that it's wrong and unacceptable, so they deny, deny, deny. Who in his right mind would want to be treated the way society treats gay people? Even serial killers, child molesters and hardcore murderers are allowed to get legally married in America, but NOT native-born, tax-paying, law-abiding gay folks! GOD forbid!!! What kind of message is that sending to gay youth and to the general gay and lesbian population? You are not as good as a serial killer?
It makes one wonder if these so-called regligous people really know God and if they even understand what religion is all about.