Ep. 58 - Deondray & Quincy Gossfield and Xavier Avila "Smoke, Lilies, & Jade"

Emmy and NAACP Image Award nominated directors Deondray and Quincy Gossfield – known for being the couple behind the GLAAD Media Award-winning series, The DL Chronicles, that paved the way for Black queer storytelling, as mentioned by The Advocate. Now they’re out with their latest project Smoke, Lilies and Jade which is a short film adaptation from writer/painter Richard Bruce Nugent’s short story about the life of Alex (Xavier Avila), a poetic artist who encounters Beauty (Ernesto Reyes), a Latino man, while cruising Harlem during its famed Queer Renaissance during the 1920s. Beauty quickly becomes the object of Alex’s desires. Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner Billy Porter serves as narrator and also stars Alexandra Grey who’s been named one of Hollywood’s biggest stars on the Rise by Out magazine.