Sterling K Brown speaks to Yahoo UK about his character Cliff Ellison's journey of acceptance as a Black gay man in American Fiction.
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00:00 I love the moment when Cliff is talking with Monk about being his authentic self
00:05 and how he wished that their father knew that he was gay whether he accepted it or
00:10 not didn't matter and I wondered how important do you feel it is for LGBTQ+
00:14 youth to see messages like that and to see stories like that on screen?
00:18 Extremely important. I have a number of LGBTQ people in my family and dear
00:24 friends and I think what I've witnessed especially in the black community
00:30 especially within the black church there's this continuous dialogue about
00:34 homosexuality being a sin and an abomination to God etc and so people who
00:40 want to do quote-unquote the right thing wind up trying to erase themselves for
00:46 the benefit of everyone else around them and I think whether you are gay or
00:51 anything else if you are living your life for the benefit of other people and
00:55 you know you're not being true to who you are you're not going to find real
00:59 happiness and so to be able to have that conversation say like I wish I had done
01:04 that I hope it's a it's a it's permission to others in the present to
01:09 be like you know what if you're gonna love me I'm gonna give all of me to you
01:13 to love and if you don't then I just keep it moving.
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