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LGBTQ+ Shorts

100 Boyfriends Mixtape

8m 38s

Directed by Brontez Purnell • 2016 • United States

In Brontez Purnell’s “video mixtape,” unlikely antihero DeShawn—an HIV-positive Black gay man haunted by the ghosts of 100 men—relates his philosophy of the world to an unknown caller on his landline while magically shrink-fitting a new pair of recently shoplifted jeans.

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