The Color of Courage

The Color of Courage documents a crucial time in the life of Daniel Freeman--this complex and rare individual, who continues to defy the odds. The African American gay male sub-community has been a tremendous resource for Daniel and many young men like him, who've long been deemed outcasts of the general African American community.

The religious teachings by which many of these men have been reared, rebukes the very desires they have dared to embrace. Subsequently, they are often ostracized by their families and other pertinent social networks that are crucial resources deliberately constructed for the sole purpose of helping the descendants of American slaves to combat prevalent racist ideologies and mechanisms. These resources have served to help African Americans to navigate through social constructs that have historically and relentlessly promoted economic, social, and political disparities.

Stricken of these vital resources, Daniel Freeman and men like him have been forced to construct their own support system and sub-community— a world highly sensationalized by mass media and known by only a sacred few, where what is right is often defined by what feels right.

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Film & Animation

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• daniel
• freeman
• gay
• rights
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• african
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[Zowyla]

For I say this to the eunuchs (homosexuals) who keep his Sabbaths holy and choose the things that please him, and come to grips with his laws: I will give them-in my house, within my walls-a name far greater than the honor they would receive from having sons and daughters. For the name that I will give them is an everlasting one; it will never disappear.

Isaiah 57:4