I loved yesterday's episode of How to get away with murder (episode 4, season 1), the gay sex scene was great, I loved it, I'd expect it from HBO, but ABC? on Tv's biggest night, wow! It was something. And because, unfortunately of course!!! people are not used to "big gay story lines" on tv, on film or even in real life, I started to think "ok, they are going too far with this gay character" but no, not really, I'd never think that if it were a straight character, it's fucked up, I know, hopefully one day people won't need to refer to a character as gay.
As a gay man, of course I'm trilled, not only because I get to watch hot guys on tv, but because it's out there, for millions of people to watch and possibly be happy with it and think "ok, there are gay people out there, I'm glad" or "I'm happy to see gay characters in a big tv show in an unapologetic way".
I also loved the last scene, Viola Davis taking off her make up, revealing her real skin tone, which is much darker au natural, before that she also takes off her wig, revealing a very different hair situation, a lot of black women struggle with their hair, I felt like it made me look at her and think "she's black" and successful but she still struggles, I honestly have a hard time differentiating races, after a while if you don't tell me or ask me, I can't if you're red or green or whatever, I also have a hard time figuring out if someone is mixed race, maybe I just don't care, I really don't, but it was nice to see her exposing herself in such a way, maybe the character needs look a certain way to feel empowered, maybe she needs to look whiter (straight hair, a lighter skin tone) we like to pretend that people are all treated fairly but a woman is still considered lucky to be successfully and the same applies to a black person :/ and gay people of course.
