Blayne Alexander

Yeah.

I mean, I think that this, there were so many aspects of this that you could look at this story and just have a bunch of stereotypes, right?

Like, this is the South.

These are very, I mean, very, you know, God-fearing religious family.

Dad's a minister.

All of these many things.

And again, like, you know, being African-American, like a lot of times like this, you know, when you're looking at, especially when it comes to religion in the Black community, like not typically and historically very accepting of

of the LGBTQ community.

And so all of these things, though, that was not the case with the Lee family.

I mean, Jay had no fear in being who he was.

It did not impact his relationship with his mom or his dad or sister or anybody in the family.

And they were just as beautiful and as loving.

And I asked Tayla during our interview, we talked for like three plus hours, and I said, where did that confidence come from?

And she said it was our family.

I mean, we knew that we were loved.

There was not a moment that we walked outside of that house that we had any question as to whether we were loved, whether we were supported.

And she said, and especially their mom really instilled this confidence and just kind of like, no, no, no, this is whoever you are, whatever you do, do it confidently.

And it was so beautiful to see that really, really come to play as I got to know Jay throughout the course of the story.

He was very clearly a fun person, right?

His style was amazing.