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I came here trying to understand the truth about Mr. Church's character. Firstly everything portrayed in the isn't exactly. For example Mr. Church never met Izzy. He never told her the story of the lady bug. I feel the story is written in a way that protects Mr.Church's privacy. I think she would definitely want to honor his privacy so they intentionally only provided bits and pieces that alluded to whatever we the viewers choose. But some things that may suggest he was gay are 1) his need for privacy. Everyone needs privacy but mr. Church had a strange need of it. The type of privacy needed when living a double life was afraid if ppl knew they would judge him like his father did. His father was abusive and made him ashamed of who he was. Even though the movie suggests that Jellys was a jazz club this is just an effort to keep Mr. Church's life private. Otherwise she wouldn't have gone out her way to hide matches bought from a regular jazz lounge. 2) Mr. Church said being with them he felt safe to be himself. Mr. Church loved to cook, sew, garden, paint and read. To many people cooking and sewing are female hobbies... but he felt safe to do those things around them because cooking gardening painting etc was who he was. As good as a cook that he was Jelly said he didn't even know he could cook. 3) during his intoxicated rambling with his fathers ghost he'd take that time to stand up to his dad who obviously criticized him for being who he was and called him the *f* word... 4) he referred to having married just to appease his father who as we know criticized his sexuality. He goes on to explain that although the woman was a wonderful woman he couldn't be the husband she wanted. Imagine that.5) I believe mr. Church illness was hiv/aids. The movie was very open about the mothers illness and gave details. But when Mr. Church got ill there was no mention of what it was. The fact that there were no more doctor visits and he always had a blanket. Why wouldn't they say
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