Damien O’Meara, RMIT University
When I interviewed Lee for my research, his advice to emerging creatives was: ‘Don’t just, for the sake of being representative, drop one [queer character] into a show.’
According to screenwriter David Hannam, queer perspectives offer ‘the story, or the version of the story, that you’ve never seen before’. But this story has to be commercial – finding universal appeal in that specific experience.
