No one I’ve spoken to, in all the years I’ve been writing, even when I was writing Naomily — I’ve never met a lesbian who said, “You know, I’ve never, ever considered sleeping with a man. I’ve never slept with a man. I’d never consider doing that.”
— AfterEllen, Co-creator Bryan Elsley insisting it was abnormal/rare for lesbians to NOT want to sleep with men.
Bryan Elsley
February 18, 2011
Tea definitely identifies as a lesbian. In fact, it is really interesting to me that so many of the young people I spoke to definitively characterized themselves as lesbians and they report that for various reasons they’ve all had sexual relationships with men.
— AfterEllen, When asked, specifically, whether it would have been better to write Tea as bisexual, Bryan Elsley insisted she was a lesbian.
Bryan Elsley
February 18, 2011
Yeah, you know, it’s funny. I was talking to people about this in the office today. I think it’s a cultural difference between the US and the UK. No one in the UK would care less about this.
— AfterEllen, Co-creator Bryan Elsley, stating that criticism to the lesbian character sleeping with a man came from cultural differences.
Bryan Elsley
February 18, 2011
I just really believe that characters in television dramas should do things they’re not supposed to do, rather than what they are supposed to do. Because people doing things they are supposed to do is quite a bit boring. But that always causes a conflict when there is a view about how people are supposed to behave, or a view of how people do behave, things like that. Storytelling and drama just get in a crash at that point. I’ve been thinking about this, and wondering why I didn’t think about it more. But I probably would have done the same thing, I think.
— AfterEllen, Co-creator Bryan Elsley, when talking about the lesbian character sleeping with a man.
Bryan Elsley
February 18, 2011
