My world is pretty much non-lesbian movie-making and all of the filmmakers I’ve known forever. I know them all through various events but it’s not my world really. 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. Jess: You were one of the first well-known out lesbians making gay entertainment back in the 90s with Go Fish, etc.
Guin talks to Jess about her lasting legacy on The L Word, her episode ideas rejected by Showtime, the current direction of gay media, the upcoming Real L Word reality show, how she feels about Go Fish two decades later and much more. When Rose Troche was recruited by Ilene Chaiken to direct the pilot of The L Word, Rose got Guin in on the ground floor where she not only wrote several episodes (including the season 1 fan favorite Dinah Shore episode) but also portrayed the much talked about Gabby Deveaux. She also co-wrote (and appeared in) the mainstream hit American Psycho starring Christian Bale and based on the novel by Brett Easton Ellis and her long-time passion project, The Notorious Bettie Page, starring Gretchen Mol. Turner went on to write and produce several short films which made the gay & lesbian film-fest rounds. The two bonded over their shared experience and their friendship inspired Chasing Amy, born out of Smith’s producer’s fantasy of dating Guin.
#Hung gay men for dating movie#
Go Fish eventually grossed over $2 million and changed their lives forever: while at Sundance in ’94, Guin met another first time filmmaker who’d just made it with his own little black & white movie about a bunch of guys talking – Kevin Smith ( Clerks). Anyhow! Frustrated with the lack of lesbian movies that depicted groups of friends like theirs, Guin and then-girlfriend Rose Troche wrote and produced Go Fish, a black & white movie with a $15,000 budget which surprisingly made its way to the capital of the indie film marketplace: The Sundance Film Festival. However, to understand her place in the lesbian pop culture landscape we have to go back all the way to the 1994 independent film that kicked off her career and busted open closet doors for lesbians everywhere: Go Fish.īack in the early 90s lesbian movie-ville was still pretty barren and the existing films basically told the same story: girl realizes she’s different/lez, girl kisses girl, girl usually ends up killing herself. Guinevere Turner is probs most widely recognized to teenaged and twentysomething lesbians as Gabby Deveaux, Alice’s perpetually cheating, bitchy ex-girlfriend on The L Word.