Hasbian & Queer Diary Double Bill

An autobiographical comedy about coming out as a teenage lesbian, only to discover that boys are also attractive. Hasbian: noun A former lesbian who has ‘become’ heterosexual or bisexual. An autobiographical comedy about coming out as a lesbian, only to discover that boys are also appealing. Hasbian uses real teenage diaries, music, and high-school movie actors from 2001-3 to tell a story of growing up in Brighton (the UK’s Gay Capital) under Section 28 (a 1988 – 2003 law prohibiting the “teaching of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship”). Dripping in equal measures with heartfelt earnestness, sharp irony, and humour that bubbles up in the place between youthful confidence and pubescent self-doubt, Hasbian will fill Millennials with buzzy nostalgia, while exposing insidious queerphobia that exists in even the most self-consciously liberal of cities.

Part of 96 Festival 2020