{"id":1406,"date":"2014-11-07T16:39:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2014-11-07T16:39:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T22:39:08","slug":"watch-pilot-for-new-hbo-show-about-gay-black-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1406","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Pilot for new HBO show about gay black man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>HBO has ordered a new series called\u00a0<em>Bros.\u00a0<\/em>that will follow Kendall, a modern gay black man. The main cast is rounded out by his two straight brothers who try to help him out while figuring out the struggles in their own lives. Via Out.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<em>Bros Before Hos<\/em>\u00a0isn\u2019t a black story or a gay story \u2014 it\u2019s a family story about three brothers, who happen to be black, and one who happens to be gay,\u201d Jones <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.indiewire.com\/shadowandact\/interview-chatting-w-anthony-hemingway-lena-waithe-ben-jones-about-their-new-tv-project\" target=\"_blank\">said in an interview<\/a> during the filming of the show\u2019s pilot presentation. \u201cThere seem to be more stories that deal with the interior lives of black women, but it\u2019s hard to find stories that deal with the interior lives of black men. We\u2019re either thugs or athletes, but there\u2019s so much more to who we are that falls in between that spectrum. It\u2019s ironic that in 2014, and even with a black president, one of the hardest things to be in this country right now is a young black man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/99281664\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman HBO has ordered a new series called\u00a0Bros.\u00a0that will follow Kendall, a modern gay black man. The main cast is rounded out by his two straight brothers who try to help him out while figuring out the struggles in their own lives. Via Out.com: \u201cBros Before Hos\u00a0isn\u2019t a black story or a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}