“Blackbird” Patrick Ian Polk Revisits A 1980’s Black LGBT Novel On The Big Screen

By Tod Roulette “Take everyone to see this movie...Every mean mother, June Bug, every church member to support this film. This is an important moment and movie for black gay people.” says founder of DBQ magazine, David Bridgeforth on the stage at the Schomburg Center Thursday April 22nd for the premiere of “Blackbird” an updated retelling of Larry Duplechan's commerical first- a black gay novel published in 1986 for St. Martin's Press. Continue reading