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Tailor: Aynai aynai. Photographer: Sam Waxman wamsaxman. History will catch up in some way, hopefully. Sam Waxman. Celebrating the Black LGBTQ+ actors and actresses who are dominating Hollywood right now. That matters. Behold, I think, the blossoming of, perhaps, one of our first Black openly gay movie stars.

Then I had to figure out why. These already fungible lines are even more precarious for Black folks and queer folks — and more so for those at the intersection of Blackness and queerness, like Domingo, an Afro-Latinx actor of Guatemalan and Belizean descent.

Movie stars are magnetic in public, sure to enliven a room by their very presence. I need you to see me without limitation. And I was actually stumped. The difference between an actor who stars in movies and a movie star is significant though somewhat subjective.

Grooming: Laura Costa using Dior Sauvage lauracosta. He is the only out queer person in the main cast. Are there many others like you? Maybe have some friends over. Domingo also carries the Black queer legacy of The Color Purplethe source text of which is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about, in part, sapphic desire.

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List of African-American LGBTQ people This is a list of Black/African Americans who are also members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and/or intersex communities. Together, Rustin and The Color Purple made Domingo worthy of a rare double nomination for leading and supporting roles during this single awards season.

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But as a leading man, he's already changing Hollywood. In the George C. Wolfe-directed Rustinhe plays Bayard Rustin, the pioneering organizer behind the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

And while the role was made famous by Danny Glover in the Steven Spielberg-directed The Color Purple Whoopi Goldberg played Celie in that versionDomingo puts his own notable spin on the complex character. Support queer media and subscribe — or download the issue through Amazon, Kindle, Nook, or Apple News.