As well as the fact that many LGBTQ+ kids have homophobic parents and are more likely to have mental health issues, like depression and social anxiety, due to the fact that they don't feel accepted by the people they love, or have to keep who they are a secret.
Since I want the film opening to be a light hearted comedy, my partner and I have decided to look at the 35% of LGBTQ+ students who haven't heard remarks like fag or dyke; the 70% that feel comfortable to go to school everyday; the 15% who haven't been verbally harassed in the past year, to inspire us to make a quirky film that doesn't associate queer with a hardships that the LGBTQ+ community has to deal with but rather something normal that any person regardless of their sexual orientation or gender can go through. That is why the plot of this opening is of a girl having a crush and not knowing if her crush likes her back. This may not be the conventional approach to a 'gay' movie but the point is that this it isn't a 'gay' movie, it's a movie about a girl who just happens to like girls.
I have a few gay kids in my classes and I talked to them about this project, as well as asked them for any advice they have that could help me properly portray a lesbian without being stereotypical. When I asked one of them named Hunter, he actually laughed and said it would be a little hard considering that some of the stereotypes do fit some lesbians [just not all], and that media usually depicts them in only that way [that way being the pixie hair cut tomboy look], and it's the viewers who make it a stereotype for the whole population, it's not necessarily the media's fault, although it does play a part.
So with that in mind, Kit (the protagonist in my film opening) will be an average Joe, just with a little more rainbows in her room than a typical girl.
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