and i came across this wonderful poet, essex hemphill, who was such an incredible orator and inherited the mantelpiece of james baldwin, i would say, in terms of his poems. and there was a way that they gave a really powerful language and pictorial frame for making a work like looking for langston. but just exploring your sexuality. maria balshaw, who s the director of the tate museum group, says, isaac has been at the forefront of challenging our ideas around both race and gender and sexuality and queer history. so, to what extent do you think it is harder being a black gay man than a white gay man? because, you know, we read a lot about how black men are depicted in the media and social media as being overly masculine, and so on. so, do you think it is harder being black and gay? well, ithink, you know, that when one s growing up, getting to understand that is, of course, complicated,
important to be able to make a work that would somehow give a form to these experiences. at the time when i made looking for langston, it was, you know, the aids crisis was in full swing and, you know, people, friends of mine were dying left, right and centre. and i came across this wonderful poet, essex hemphill, who was such an incredible orator and inherited the mantelpiece of james baldwin, i would say, in terms of his poems. and there was a way that they gave a really powerful language and pictorial frame for making a work like looking for langston. but just exploring your sexuality. maria balshaw, who s the director of the tate museum group, says, isaac has been at the forefront of challenging our ideas around both race and gender and sexuality and queer history. so, to what extent do you think it is harder being a black gay man than a white gay man? because, you know, we read a lot about how black men are depicted in the media and social media as being