Chase Simmons recently completed Dear Dad, a documentary that certainly looks like it’ll be worth watching. The idea behind the movie is that eight black gay/same-gender-loving men write open letters to their fathers, revealing their highs and low, along with the pain, happiness and their hope for the future.
Simmons has been talking to Huffpo about the film, saying, “As a black same-gender-loving man, I know how difficult it can be to forge a real relationship with your father. I’ve struggled with it myself. In my own experience there is often an immediate disconnect once your sexuality is mentally acknowledged, and that gap just gets wider and wider over time. That led me to think about how I’ve struggled to forge real relationships with other SGL men, romantic or platonic. Then I started to think about how I struggled to maintain connections with the heterosexual men in my life after coming out, especially black heterosexual men. Those thoughts looped me back to the first black heterosexual man that I knew, my dad. So I felt like there was a lot of potential in hearing these stories.”
Take a look at the trailer above. You can read more from Simmons over at Huffpo, and find out about the movie itself on its website.
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