«Moonlight,» a drama about
a gay black youth coming to terms with his sexuality in an impoverished Miami neighbourhood, received the Oscar for best picture on Sunday, February 26 after a stunning, unprecedented flub in which presenters erroneously announced the musical «La La Land» as the winner.
But A24, a small independent studio founded in 2012, won the most prestigious award of the night with its best picture Oscar for «Moonlight,» a drama about
a gay black youth coming to terms with his sexuality in an impoverished Miami neighborhood.
Not exact matches
Her schedule can read like a map of multiculturalism in New York: opening a 24 - hour center for L.G.B.T.Q.
youth in Queens, touring an urban farm in East Harlem, a Hispanic Heritage event at Gracie Mansion one night and a transgender theater performance another, opening a substance use clinic at the
Gay Men's Health Crisis headquarters in Manhattan, attending a reading of writer James Baldwin at a center for
black culture — all since late September.
It's a triptych portrait of a young
gay black man, played by three different actors as a kid, a teen and then a young man: an almost Tolstoyan sense of childhood, boyhood and
youth.
«Counterculture,» a survey of the last thirty years of «Alternative Information from the Underground Press to the Internet,» displayed some 1,000 - plus items organized around such general themes as «Students,
Youth, and the Rise of the Underground Press,» «
Black Panthers and Third World Struggles,» «Feminism and
Gay Liberation,» and «Punk Subculture and Zines.»