Over the decades of LGBTQ+ stories told onscreen, there is one dominant theme, Suffering.
Now it's time to shift the narrative…
BURY YOUR GAYS DEFINITION: The film and TV trope that sees queer characters dying far more frequently than straight characters, and rarely allowing them to be happy.
Do you remember that episode of Friends, 'The One with the Lesbian Wedding’?
At the wedding, there is a moment when one of their guests, a masc presenting queer woman, hits on Phoebe. The audience laugh. And that’s the joke - a butch lesbian asking out beautiful Phoebe. When I first watched this in the early 2000s, this was the first time I had ever seen a group of lesbians on screen.
I feel such a calling to make this film. Having grown up watching films and TV always depicting queer lives as sad, depressing and torturous, I want to contribute to a new era of queer narrative.
— Charlotte Cooper, Director
