To this day, Moonlight remains one of the most touching and real stories to be told on the silver screen, and was groundbreaking at the time of its release for its humanizing portrayal of life as a gay black man surviving a tough upbringing. The kiss between main character Chiron (Ashton Sanders) and his friend Kevin (Jharrel Jerome) takes place on the beach under the stars — not necessarily something revolutionary for a romance scene — but the fact that it was a kiss between two black teenage boys who weren't ashamed of what they were doing speaks to the importance of Moonlight as a cultural touchstone.