absence of queers in Sinners is simply the average black heterosexual imagination of black history. Despite that black trans and queer are all up & through Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction history onward. The first trans woman to testify before congress was a former slave

And the first legal action on behalf of queer Americans was filed by—-you guessed—-a former slave.

@afroanalytic Why don’t yall make a film? Why do heterosexuals have to mule for non-heterosexuals?

@afroanalytic Why don’t yall go find these queer movies yall desperately need and talk about those or go make em yourselves.

@afroanalytic You black before you gay stop taking away from Black Culture. It’s just getting weird Stop it

@afroanalytic It's a work of fiction made by an artist who fights to do what he wants. If you want art-by-committee, in which uncreative people make bureaucratic decisions about what's inserted into an artists work, then I'm not interested in THAT queer inclusion.

@afroanalytic Damn! So what! why you people always want to be centered in every GD thing? A very huuuuuggggge portion of people here in the US dgaf about the queer agenda or anything resembling it. If you want to see yourselves on the big screen go make your own movies sheesh.

@afroanalytic I didn’t know this! What was her name? I’d love to learn more

@afroanalytic My brother in Christ, Sinners was not a historic reenactment of black history it was a VAMPIRE movie lmao. Y’all just need to be honest and say you looking for a reason to tear down Ryan Coogler because he a successful black man.

@afroanalytic But historically they would not have been at public space interacting as openly Queer. I say begat as a Queer person who LOVES period pieces that include us. There may hv been Queer people in that space, but they wouldn't be openly interacting that way.

@afroanalytic This! The initial question was valid. And although I personally don't feel there was ill intent or malice on Ryan's part. Per him being a cis-hetero black male he not really thinkin bout us🤷🏿‍♂️

@afroanalytic Ok and? The movie was not about queet messaging. If you want queen messaging then go find media based on it. You are not entitled to representation, get over it.

@afroanalytic Yeah it would totally make sense to add in Homosexuals and other Queer people in a film that’s set in Jim Crow Mississippi 💀 Yall niggas are not serious

@afroanalytic What other black demographics/groups were not depicted in the movie? Queer narcissism at its best.

@afroanalytic If black men were the main characters, most were probably DL, if that helps.

The honest truth is that there aren't that many of you to begin with. Yall are just fellow Black Americans to us because we've never asked what you do in your bedroom, historically So ANY person could have been lgbt on the film in the same ways they would have been in real life, in the past

@afroanalytic Running out of things to complain about actually in Sinners.. we must move on to complaining about things absent from Sinners

@afroanalytic Gays don't have to be in every damn thing. How do you know if one of the actors in Sinners aren't gay? Do they have to announce it?🙄

@afroanalytic Does Tyler Perry not make films anymore? Go watch the movies made for you.

@afroanalytic Movie wasn't about gays. Go watch your gay movies and leave normal healthy family structure Black people alone.

@afroanalytic There's enough evidence to suggest that the Black queer community hates the Black community in general. These comments are a sample size.

@afroanalytic you are gay or like gay things, COOL! Why do heterosexual people have to be DISPARAGED, RIDICULED OR CRITIQUED for not including yall? Why Every time I watch a tv series or a movie, it has to have a gay undertone or inuendo in it? Be gay & happy but dont force your choice on US

@afroanalytic we don't care man, the film didn't need any trans characters

@afroanalytic Not to mention Little Richard being the epitome of rock and roll blues

@afroanalytic Just go watch moonlight and have a good time

@afroanalytic Gay black folk looking like the white people of black people right now. Can't even lie.

@afroanalytic There wasn't one Indian in Sinners. Should I also throw my toys out the pram?

@afroanalytic I hear you but everybody doesn't get represented in everything🤷🏿‍♂️ it's unrealistic to expect it and to try and single out one guy because he actually got recognized for his work is unfair

@afroanalytic @JoyMoone Adding some ballroom voguers during the “I lied to you” ancestors/future sequence would’ve been a cool touch I think

@afroanalytic Why don’t yall take this argument to the numerous LGBT directors in Hollywood?

@afroanalytic The movie is perfect how it is. If you’re bitter because you didn’t have any representation now that the movie won an Oscar, maybe take a deep breath and ask nicely for a movie about LGBT representation. Not difficult

@afroanalytic No one is stopping you from producing your own black lgbtq movie. You can call it Queeners or something