When Fiction Starts Looking Like the News. I’ll be honest—five years ago, when I started writing Rebellion: The Last American Queer, I thought I was writing sci-fi. I thought I was writing a warning about a "what if" future. But sitting here today, watching what is happening right now in Michigan, in Minneapolis, in Oregon, and in communities all across this country... I realize I wasn't writing fiction. I was writing a documentary. We are living in a moment where our existence is being debated, legislated, and erased in real-time. The dystopian "Ghost Town" we built in the studio doesn't feel far away anymore. It feels like it’s right outside the window. That is exactly why art has power. That is why art is needed right now. Not just to entertain, but to document. To scream when they tell us to be silent. To prove we were here. This project is also a completely new game for us. For the first time ever, Geo and I didn't just create something and hope it found a home—we built this specifically to kick down the door at Tribeca. We have never created a project for a festival before. It’s a terrifying, high-stakes pivot, but we believe this story demands that kind of platform. We have poured everything—our hearts, our fears, and our fight—into this submission. It is terrifying how real this story has become, but that only makes it more necessary to tell. We are ready. We are submitting. And I hope, very soon, we get to share this weapon of a story with the world. Silence is mandatory for them. Rebellion is inevitable for us.
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