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Color Purple's Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor Slams Movie for Erasing Lesbian Story
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, who identifies as bisexual, stars as Mama in the 2023 remake of ‘The Color Purple’
Whether the choice was made to focus on that or not in the cinematic iterations of The Color Purple, it’s still a movie about Black lesbians,” Ellis-Taylor, 54, told BuzzFeed in an interview published on Friday, February 16. Shows like Schitt’s Creek, Modern Family and The Fosters have put LGBTQ romances front and center — and made audiences swoon over their characters’ love stories. In the beloved Pop TV series Schitt’s Creek, writer and producer Dan Levy illustrated the complexities of coming out and finding love in a small town.
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