An explicit sex scene in a new film only highlights the problems Nigeria's film industry has with Lgbt representation
It's not exactly Brokeback Mountain. They look like they're having more fun, for starters – one guy bent over a deluxe sofa getting rogered by his mate: "Yeah! You know I'm a bad boy!"
It's no tearjerking "I wish I knew how to quit you", but it is a tiny piece of history: one of Nollywood's handful of gay sex scenes. It kicks off the film Pregnant Hawkers in typically unapologetic Nollywood style; surprisingly explicit for a country where homosexual sex is still illegal and punishable by death in some states.
Reactions have been, shall we say, mixed. "I'm speechless – are we supposed to accept this trend?" said one blogger. A forum commenter: "This is not good for Nollywood – salt in the wound." Another: "It's time for sympathetically and affirmatively drawn gay characters in Nollywood.
It's not exactly Brokeback Mountain. They look like they're having more fun, for starters – one guy bent over a deluxe sofa getting rogered by his mate: "Yeah! You know I'm a bad boy!"
It's no tearjerking "I wish I knew how to quit you", but it is a tiny piece of history: one of Nollywood's handful of gay sex scenes. It kicks off the film Pregnant Hawkers in typically unapologetic Nollywood style; surprisingly explicit for a country where homosexual sex is still illegal and punishable by death in some states.
Reactions have been, shall we say, mixed. "I'm speechless – are we supposed to accept this trend?" said one blogger. A forum commenter: "This is not good for Nollywood – salt in the wound." Another: "It's time for sympathetically and affirmatively drawn gay characters in Nollywood.
- 8/1/2013
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
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