Colman Domingo
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews RUSTIN a biopic about the gay black activist who was the chief architect of 1963 Civil Rights March
It’s Oscars season, and amongst a fairly predictable line-up of nominees is the nomination of Colman Domingo for his role as Bayard Rustin in the Netflix biopic Rustin. Rustin was a gay black activist who was the chief architect of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington which led to the creation of…
Academy Award Nominee COLMAN DOMINGO set to star in movies as Nat King Cole plus Joe Jackson
Colman Domingo the first gay black actor nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor has a busy road ahead. His nomination was for his performance as Bayard Rustin (in Rustin) who was a leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. Now he has announced that he is to…
Congrats to Colman Domingo for his Oscar Nomination BUT why is there such a lack of LGBTQ nominees …… unlike the Brit Academy
So the 2024 Academy Award Nominations have been announced, The (very) good news is that Colman Domingo is the second gay actor nominated in Oscar history for playing a gay character ….Bayard Rustin. The first one was back in 1999 when Sir Ian McKellan was nominated for for his portrayal of James Whale…
RUSTIN : the story of the most powerful gay and human rights activist who never got the recognition he deserved
It’s been 20 years since the award-winning documentary Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin by Nancy D. Kates and Bennett Singer was on our screens. So this new Netflix feature RUSTIN written by Academy Award Winner Dustin Lance Black and Julian Breece is well overdue. Rustin was an African-American leader…
