The DL Chronicles' Creators Reflect on Success
At the San Francisco GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday night, The DL Chronicles walked away with the award for Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Anthology. In the wake of this win, The Daily Voice (a mainstream Black news site) carried an article written by the creators of the program, Deondray Gossett and Quincy LeNear.Deondray states that this "small, gay-themed TV show about the sexually duplicitous lives of African American men is rapidly becoming the cornerstone for dialogue and enlightenment about an otherwise obscure and taboo subject in the African American community," and talks about the kinds of conversations it is prompting people to have:
The show has become the hot topic at the barber shops and beauty salons, and having been eavesdropping on some of these discussions, I have found many of the conversations to be devoid of scandalous and sensational rhetoric, but rather full of questions, introspection, and people who are sincerely seeking clarity and understanding on a topic that is rarely openly discussed in a healthy and non-homophobic manner.
Quincy speaks about the difficulty of taking an artistic idea and making it a reality:
But what is the value of an idea when you assume that you are not in a position of power, nor armed with a surplus of cash?
We were just two starving artists, beating the pavement, and working day jobs to survive. We were also two young, black males from inner city communities who also happened to be gay. What did we have? What were our advantages? We certainly had many believed disadvantages; however, we refused to submit to defeat. [...] The DL Chronicles represents the ingenuity and resourcefulness that is abundant to us all and is a reminder of the tenacity and creativity of our community. Claim your power as an artist. We don't serve ourselves by thinking small but we serve the world by thinking big.
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