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Bulletproof: A Lesbian's Guide to Surviving the Plot | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer
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6/23/2025
Filmmaker Regan Latimer takes an insightful, immersive, and deeply personal look at Queer representation in television, | dG1fN2lHbDlVaHpUTGc
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Ever since the golden age, when televisions first entered our homes,
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TV characters have been entering our hearts.
00:13
We laugh with them. We hope with them.
00:16
And are, of course, ultimately betrayed by their inevitable demise.
00:27
Sound familiar?
00:30
Of course it does.
00:31
For decades, queer characters have been suffering a disproportionate number of catastrophic disasters and heartbreaking ends.
00:41
To help you perumbulate this emotional minefield, we are proud to bring you A Lesbian's Guide to Surviving the Plot,
00:49
including real-world navigation,
00:55
step-by-step instructions,
00:57
and sensible advice from experienced professionals in the know.
01:05
They should get all the dead lesbians together and put them in a movie.
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It will be called Unbury Your Gays.
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Six years ago, I set out on a mission to unravel the plot behind the problematic queer representation I was seeing on screen.
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Siri, tell me about dead lesbians.
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Lesbians.
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Often lesbian characters, they can exist, but they have to somehow suffer.
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That spring of 2016 was like goo-goo-goo-goo-goo-goo.
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Like they were just lesbians dropping, bisexual women dropping.
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So then you really have to go, what's the problem here?
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How many gays have you buried?
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I have never added that up or even thought about it.
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We'll fact check that.
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There was another character who was sort of gay, but he went to Mrs. Kwan's office and then he never came back.
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That's where the closet is.
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That's right.
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I remember people started tweeting at me, make sure you're wearing a bulletproof vest.
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I was like, how does everybody know?
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They're psychic.
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And the lesbians are psychic.
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Does a queer character need to be bulletproof to survive the plot?
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Of course we have to take responsibility for the power of the pen and understand that what we write can have impact.
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Well, I'm not killing any more lesbians.
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And every time a queer character experiences joy or triumph, and then you destroy them or murder them or kill them off,
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what message are you sending to kids?
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You never know if that representation is that stone that creates a ripple effect in someone's life.
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It's like removing the mask of a Scooby-Doo villain.
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I was actually queer the whole time.
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It has a dramatic impact on the way in which we are seen by the general public,
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the way in which we have access to rights.
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And what are we going to do about it?
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Jesus, that lesbian just ran right in front of the car.
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Just kidding.
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Jesus, that was an old lady.
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All this and more in A Lesbian's Guide to Surviving the Plot.
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An action plan for a brighter tomorrow.
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