Know Your LGBT History - Don't be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

The Wayans family is the first African-American film family of Hollywood and they got this monicker through their brand of blue humor comedy movies.

Some are funny, others areastupid and in a few of them, the lgbt community have been made fun of. But to be honest, so have a lot of other groups and nationalities.

Now their first movie to hit it big, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, (1996) was a takeoff of the annoying plethora of movies which featured black men in danger of being murdered through gang activity and neighborhood violence.

I hate to say it but this movie grows on you and there are some serious laugh out loud scenes.

But I had a discussion with a friend of mine involving two scenes which didn't necessarily talk about the lgbt community per se but is still of some interest to us . . . maybe.

The first scene is a take off of the cookout scene from the movie Boys N Da Hood. In it, the head villain is bragging about how he is not afraid to go back to jail. And his sentiments are echoed by members of the cast, until the last part:



Here is the thing - I don't know if that is insulting to the lgbt community per se more than a mockery of how some romanticize the prison culture without taking into account all of the things that go on in prison.

Now the next scene I will not show, but talk about because it so vulgar.

It is a take off from a scene Menace II Society in which a crack addict is gunned down after he offers the drug dealer oral sex.

In Don't Be a Menace to South Central, the scene has a, shall we say, less violent and more mutually beneficial outcome to the parties involved.

Again, I will not feature this scene but the link is here for those who want to see it.

And again, I would like your thoughts on whether or not the scene is insulting to the lgbt community.


Past Know Your LGBT History postings

Know Your LGBT History - A Different Story

Know Your LGBT History - Victim

Know Your LGBT History - The Color Purple

Know Your LGBT History - Making Love

Know Your LGBT History - A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge

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Know Your LGBT History - Adorable Adrian Adonis

Know Your LGBT History - The Night Strangler

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Know Your LGBT History - The Celluloid Closet

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