![]() ![]() ![]() to the concept of nonviolent protest - and finds himself thrust into activist circles. It’s there that Trey strikes up a friendship with Bayard Rustin - the real-life activist and organizer who introduced Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]() In the summer of 1985, Trey casts both his six-figure inheritance and his college plans aside to pursue a Bohemian life in New York City, where he joins “a hidden society of Black sodomites” - namely, the Black gay men who gather at Harlem’s Mt. Newson’s debut novel follows Trey, a young, gay Black man from Indianapolis. “If you took some of my personality traits and put them in a character, what would that look like?” In writing My Government Means to Kill Me, he got to find out. It began as a thought experiment: “I’m Black and I’m gay, so I’ve spent my whole life wondering what I would have done had I been born during the civil rights movement, or what I would have done had I been 10 or 15 years older during the height of the AIDS crisis,” Rasheed Newson, the co-showrunner of Bel Air, tells Bustle. ![]()
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