Black, Gay Love: MIRRORS
“ Whenever anyone begins to think about arts advocacy, a complex obstacle presents itself at once: artists have a very bad habit of being resilient, and it is that resilience that deceives us into believing that the best of it sort of gets done anyhow — and the “great” and the “best” sort of lasts anyhow... The public and even academic perception is that nothing, neither social nor personal devastation, stop the march and production of powerful and beautiful artworks... Chaucer wrote in the middle of a plague. James Joyce and Edvard Munch carried on with a blind eye and a weak one respectively. French writers excelled in and defined an age writing in the forties under Nazi occupation... The greatest of composers was able to continue while deaf. Artists have found madness, ill-health, penury, and humiliating exile — political, cultural, religious — in order to do their work... Accustomed to their grief, their single-minded capacity for it and their astonishing perseverance in spite of it, we sometimes forget that what they do is in spite of distress — not because of it...””
MIRRORS by Azure D. Osborne-Lee is a gripping story unearthed by time and death. There are so many powerful moments within MIRRORS.
The idea of gay love from a Black perspective of the past. Body diversity and varied spectrums of the queer identity.
This is very much one the stories currently missing from theater. From our media at large. Join us at the premiere of MIRRORS, on November 10th, 2021.
And check out our teaser for MIRRORS above.