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These spots are more than buildings and the booty that’s in them. Shelli, A. Tony, Carmen and Natalie got together to talk about P-Valley’s queerer second season and how the show is truly changing the game.
A lot of people, when they hear that P-Valley is a TV show about a strip club, they think about spots like The Landing Strip from Friday Night Lights, Bada Bing from The Sopranos, or Xavier’s from Hightown… but P-Valley really has changed the game on how strip clubs are depicted.
Do the work; look inward!”
He continued, “This is why it’s important to see these gay black love scenes on television. Real life strip clubs that are white are so boring, they are lackluster and it is folks doing the bare minimum and it being celebrated as being the best. But Shelli, you’re absolutely right! Uncle Clifford and Lil’ Murda are simply unrivaled.
How did you process that response, just as someone who has to exist in this world as a black queer person?
Shelli: The hold homophobia has on niggas is tight and probably not letting go anytime soon, lol.
I’m gonna guess that most cishet Black men who watch the show do so in the hopes of seeing the girlies strip and bounce and shake ass.
Watching them brings up questions they have about their own sexuality. What’d you think about the storyline? EST on Starz.
Her leaning into some Sapphic situations? After that episode aired… whew, the homophobia jumped out… social media was just awash in it.
Is Lil Murda Gay?
Lil Murda’s sexual orientation is undetermined. So, it’s very bittersweet, because we lost him, but then people have just been craving for Uncle Cliff and Lil’ Murda.”
“To see them come back together is a beautiful moment,” the actor continues.
Irrespective of the several complications, Lil Murda and Clifford nurture a fascinating companionship together. Right there in Barnes & Noble. So often, shows only tells one type of queer story at a time — a gay or lesbian relationship, most often — and there’s no thought about community, but P-Valley builds that in season two.
Those of them who are watching it with their straight partners may be doing so out of obligation and didn’t think that the storylines would go where they have.
They were probably weirded out by Uncle Clifford, but because she wasn’t doing anything “very gay” they tolerated it.
It may have been more articulate for me to just scream for five minutes straight with intermittent sobbing ’cause that’s all I do when I see them.
Natalie: No, that was perfect, A. Tony. This show is not for you. And there was no better actor to do that with than J. Alphonse,” he says.
Echoing his sentiment, Nicholson says he was happy that he could share this with Stewart.
Well, let us share what we know! The specificity of seeing such deep storytelling, hard fought and loving, set in the Black South?