Posted on 03/28/2022 1:58:43 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Actor Ariana DeBose has made history as the first Afro Latina and first openly queer woman of color to win an Academy Award for acting.
DeBose won in the best supporting actress category for her performance reviving the iconic role of Anita in Steven Spielberg’s version of “West Side Story.”
"Imagine this little girl in the back seat of a white Ford Focus. When you look into her eyes, you see an openly queer woman of color, an Afro Latina, who found her strength in life through art. And that's what I believe we're here to celebrate," DeBose said .
"So to anybody who's ever questioned your identity ever, ever, ever or you find yourself living in the gray spaces, I promise you this: There is indeed a place for us," she added.
Set in the 1950s, “West Side Story” centers on the rivalry between two teenage street gangs — the Jets, a white gang, and the Sharks, a Puerto Rican gang..
“Ultimately what you see on the screen is such a beautiful exploration of a deep female relationship,” DeBose previously told NBC News. “It is ugly. It is loud. It is highly emotional. Quite frankly, it’s volatile, and then just downright heartbreaking because there is so much love there.”
In winning the Screen Actors Guild’s best supporting actress award last month, DeBose became the first Latina to win a film award from the guild and the first queer woman of color to be recognized in an acting category.
Her critically acclaimed performance also earned DeBose her first Golden Globe as well as a BAFTA Award.
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But is she Left Handed?
Also the first one to have a heterosexual black male (we’re told) wench-slap another heterosexual black male onstage.
Just to get all the i’s crossed and t’s dotted.
That description in the headline is probably a prerequisite to win an Oscar.
Who gives a rotten raisin? This is such picayune nonsense. Don’t people have lives to live?
Michigan J Frog being passed over for an Oscar was a travesty.
Afro latina
So she’s Black? She’s Latin?
She claims both, but Obama only claims one.
I’m confused.
Aren’t there any “firsts” anymore that are actually laudable people instead of some of the most wretched, perverted specimens breathing?
How nice for her.
No matter how loudly they celebrate themselves it don’t amount to a hill of beans.
There is nothing here to celebrate in manufactured accomplishments by the untalented publicity obsessed self absorbed wannabes.
Well, la dee freakin’ da!
Her father is a black guy from Puerto Rico so Trump can deport her along with AOC in 2025.
That’s what they’re there to celebrate. Not the acting. In Wokestan, it’s always about the narrative.
Imagine how much that means to me.
Smile...
What the hell is “queer?” It sounds like just some way for losers to declare they are victims without doing any work.
When you look into her eyes, you see an openly queer woman of color
= = =
OK
I am going to need some education here.
Just how does looking into the eyes tell all that?
I’m sure she was the best candidate (eyes rolling).
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