Wolfe, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” takes place during the rehearsal and recording of a new song by the blues great of the title. Reuters/Mark Blinchĭirected by out gay Public Theater veteran George C. Director Deepa Mehta’s (above) “Funny Boy” is an adaptation of a 1994 novel written by Shyam Selvadurai. He and his boyfriend look to British pop singers like David Bowie and Boy George as models of acceptance, but their love can’t solve the problems of a country rife with violence.
The Indian-Canadian director starts with her hero, Arjie, as an 8-year-old young boy whose gayness his family can already detect, and then jumps ahead a decade to show him in high school. Netflixĭeepa Mehta’s film relates to a romance between two Sri Lankan teenage boys as civil war between the country’s Sinhalese and Tamil ethnic groups heats up in the ‘80s. The most recent season of “Big Mouth” hit Netflix in December.
