Watch: Nigerian Short - Hell or High Water

Hell or High Water is a Nigerian Short by Director Asurf Oluseyi. The film chronicles the life of a married Pastor and the consequences of concealing his sexual identity.

Peep the movie after the jump:

My 2 Pence: Outness Levels

Outness levels have always been an interesting subject for me.

Being black and African where it is drilled into from a young age that from an African / Caribbean mentality POV, having guys as your preference will not be tolerated. It will also conjure up feelings of repulsion and digust within family members who hold this view due to the images they associate with gay people. This preference is seen as a sickness that brings shame onto the family name and is looked at as choice that should be prayed away.

So imagine, you are in your teens, twenty or in some cases older and through dating you are reconciling your attraction with like minds but with the burden of the people who you love hating a part of what makes you, you?

You begin to introvert your experiences through the need to avoid discussing your love life, in some cases avoiding family functions where as you get older, siblings peers and other family members of your generation settle down and get married while you keep them at arms length.

So the question is, can you be happy with someone who is out and accepted by their family? Or are you limited to swimming in the pond of discreet like minds carrying the weight of the world as they figure this thing out called life?

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below:

Watch: Kaleidoscope Episodes 1-8

Kaleidoscope is a cool webseries from Freefall creator Lamont Pierre and his ArtHouse collective. The webseries explores the journey of a man who due to lack of funds, ventures into gay adult entertainment to support his family.  Pierre's production umbrella, The Art House, offer the 'shortie' or bite sized episodes on youtube and the full length episodes via http://www.thearthousetv.vhx.tv/

The show stars Thomas Mackey about About Him actor Rahim Brazil

Peep Episodes 1 -8 after the jump:

My 2 Pence: What's your Value add?

Do me a favour. Stop what are you doing right now and Whatsapp / imessage your best friends and ask them what they think your strengths as a friend are from their perspective.

Find out what my friends replied with after the jump...

Watch: Moonlight (Movie Trailer)

The trailer for coming of age movie by director Barry Jenkins, Moonlight hit the web today. Peep the trailer by clicking on 'read more' below.

Watch: 2 Gay Themed 'What Would You Do?' Episodes

ABC's What would you do? hosted by journalist John Quiñones aired two Atlanta based gay themed episodes recently. One episode covers praying the gay away whilst the other centres on HIV status disclousure. Peep the instalments and my 2 pence by clicking 'read more' below:

The Success Years

What up #TeamBlud. I've been gone for a minute but I've been getting my priorities in order. 

Own crib, saavy investments, getting my corporate career moving. Spending more time with my family and feeling the love. Dating people who are about their hustle with heart, taking escapades to the next level, and leaving red flag waste men in the past. 

I've also made real inroads with dope people in this life internationally who I consider my connects and take trips where I get to see the world and experience dope hospitality.

I say that to say, have a vision for how you want you life to be on your terms. Stop explaining your life to people and live it. Also don't get in your own way or compromise your vision for people who haven't earned the right for their opinion to matter or who are not where you want to be.

Simply put, life is good.

Former Death Row Artist Danny Boy Talks Being Gay

Former Death Row Artist Danny Boy sat down with Vlad TV recently to talk about his journey to going public about his sexual preference for men. Peep the insightful interview by clicking 'read more' below.

Watch: Industry Guys ATL Season 1

Web based reality show Industry Guys ATL, recently wrapped its first season. Get to know cast mates DeMariyon Nathan Jarvis Delvin Javis and Reggie by clicking 'read more' below.

Watch: About Him Episode 1

Episode 1 of Signal 23 series About has just hit the web. Peep the 1st instalment and my thoughts on it by clicking 'more below.

Short Film - The Bash

Check out this dope short by film maker Tyson FitzGerald. Entitled 'The Bash' , a couple having a heated discussion about PDA find themselves in hot water when their discussion catches the attention of bigots. Peep how it all plays out by clicking 'more' below.

Watch Documentary: Out and Bad

Noisey magazine, recently produced a documentary on the LGBT dancehall scene in London. Entitled 'Out and Bad' watch the documentary in full by clicking 'more' below.

Watch: About Him (Trailer)

A super trailer teasing what viewers can expect from forthcoming web series About Him has hit the web.

Peep the trailer after the jump:

Time Space Worth & Weakness

What's up world. I've been missing in action for a hot minute.

I guess the relationship I had was partly to do with it. But I felt I needed to just unplug to get back to happy. Am I there yet? No but I am moving in the right direction.

More on where I'm at after the jump:

Watch: Extreme UK - Gay and Under Attack

BBC actor, presenter and DJ Reggie Yates kicked off the second series of 'Extreme' documentaries by attempting to shine a light on being gay and a minority in the UK. Peep the documentary and my two pence after the jump: