NOAH'S BACK!!!!

OMG!! OMG!! OMG!! I just got back from seeing Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom and all I can say is OMG!! I cannot believe what a fantastic movie it was! A BLACK and GAY fantastic movie. Totally blew me away. I was not expecting it to be so damn good. Patrick (Patrick Ian Polk-the creator- writer), honey, I gotta give you your promps, man, you really did an amazing job! I will definitely go spend my Gay, Black dollars to see the film again. I was terribly disappointed when the show was cancelled last year. Noah's Arc was a ground-breaking series on the LOGO network (whose parent company is MTV). Every one says the first season saw some kinda poor acting...they were right! The acting on some fronts was kinda bad. But it was just such a distinct pleasure to see gay Black men reflected on television. It was us, us, our story (as concocted by Mr. Polk) that was being told. I thought the series was a little too much like Sex in the City, though, and I really did not care for the story line, but I felt obligated as a Gay Black man to watch it. It was sheer torture week after week watching as they paraded a series of the finest Black mens on the planet, across the screen, lol, just torture. And, and...an added bonus was that the show actually had gay men!! Imagine that. Darryl Stephens, who plays the title character, Noah, turned out to be a homo. Doug Spearman (or Spears), who plays Chance is a "brother". And of course the show's creator, Patrick Ian Polk, is in our little club, too.
I have to be honest and also say that I did not think the show would last long. I knew a show about Black gay men, without any white characters, would not hold the air waves. There were other shows on LOGO like Bad Girls, a British show about lesbians in prison. I would not be exaggerating if I called it dumb, pathetic and morbidly uninteresting!!! And it was British television, uhg! I have seen a few British shows and frankly they should leave television to the Americans, fahreal! But the majority of characters were White. White folks ain't much interested in what's going in the lives of Black folk, let alone gay Black folk. The Cosby show was an exception. But the Huxtables were not your average Black family. They were palatable to White audiences.
Yup, racism and prejudice also infect the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender) community. Go to any gay bar/club and it's just like the lunch room at high school. Whites on one side, Blacks on the other. Oh, where is that brave new world where we love and accept each other, where we embrace our brother and sister who are different from us, and welcome and affirm their lives, too. Not here I guess! It's complicated I am sure as so much of life is, yet alarmingly simple. We run around the planet hatin' on each other when we do not even know each other. Now if you know me and hate me that's a horse of a different color, lol. But to not even know me and hate or dislike me is just stupid, as Lizzie the Lezzie says, just stupid. I mean we had to add Black Gay Pride 'cause we were feeling a little left out. Our White brothers and sisters were playing a mean tune during Gay Pride but we wanted to make some music of our own. Sometimes you have to compose your own music in life, other people cannot always sing your song for you.
And no, I am not going to talk about the movie, heheheh!! Go and see it. I can tell you what I took away from it, though. Family is a wonderful cushion, even if it's not biological, as so many of us LGBT folk discover. Life will not hand you a guide. You have to jump into it, fall down, pick your self up (and your partner), dust yourself off and get on with it. The journey is the greatest experience you will have especially when you have the love and support of friends and family.
Cheerio, Thomas!