Since 2007 there’s been a big boom in lesbian entertainment, defined by the video blog revolution and the “celesbians” that came out of that. I know them all through various events but it’s not my world really. My world is pretty much non-lesbian movie-making and all of the filmmakers I’ve known forever. In my personal life I have a whole part of my life in which my sexuality is irrelevant/not even known. I’m a writer of mainstream stuff so I kind of have a double personality. What’s more important in that world is what my take is on an adaptation on a novel, you know? And, my creative community is more in the indie film world. “I’m NOT going to be on the fucking reality show when I was on the actual L Word!” At the same time I have made 4 short films in LA and it’s been mostly lesbian crews and other lesbian filmmakers helping me out because I’ve helped them out… so, I do have a lesbian community here, it’s just not those guys.
Jess: We have to talk about The Real L Word produced by Ilene Chaiken for Showtime. Guin: The funny thing is, of course I happen to know someone who is on it.
