Multihyphenate filmmaker Elegance Bratton said his latest project, “The Inspection,” about a gay homeless Black man who joins the Marines, hits especially close to home after he was kicked out as a teenager for being gay and spent a decade living on the streets.
“I wanted to make a film that could remind those folks that you matter, that you have within you the light to triumph over great adversity,” Bratton said.LGBTQ film festival, NewFest Throughout the film, French yearns for his mother’s acceptance of his sexuality. During his time in the military, he works to build friendships, but faces a spate of anti-LGBTQ attacks during bootcamp training, including being brutally beaten by other service members. Bratton said the Marines portrayed in the film are held to “a standard of masculinity that is both at once impossible and also oppressive.
“No one in her graduation even knew that she had a brother, not her teacher, not her classmates,” Bratton said. “I was very upset, extremely upset, feeling erased. … I resolved at that moment that I was going to become a filmmaker, and I was going to be impossible to avoid.”
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