‘Saturday Church’ and ‘The Brothers Size’: Stories of Black queer spirituality

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ministry of the Church of St. Luke in the Fields in Greenwich Village, which inspired the 2017 film on which “Saturday Church” is based. Saturday Church is also the place where Ulysses meets his first crush, a young hustler named Raymond (Jackson Kanawha Perry). But it is currently the site of another show in which Black queer spirituality finds expression, albeit far more subtly. “The Brothers Size” is Tarell Alvin McCraney’s 2007 play about Louisiana siblings who are each other’s only remaining family. Otherwise the queerness of “The Brothers Size,” like its spirituality, is a kind of thrumming undertone.