Eleven years after Girls Like Girls changed a generation of queer lives, *the* Lesbian Jesus discusses its evolution into a feature film, the power of Asian representation and her mission to reshape sapphic cinema.
Photography Grace Scuitto
Styling Avigail Collins
MUA Marla Vazquez
Hair Abraham Esparza
Cast your mind back to 2015. Same-sex marriage had yet to be legalised across the United States, Tumblr was thriving and, somewhere, a young queer person was watching Hayley Kiyoko's ‘Girls Like Girls’ music video for the first time and having their life irrevocably altered.
The sapphic coming-of-age track, released while Kiyoko was still in the early stages of her music career, quickly became a cultural touchstone. The video, of course, went mega-viral and, we can only assume, caused the mass opening of closet doors worldwide. More than a decade later, it's still a staple of sapphic music video nights. Ask any queer zillennial woman and she could probably recite every lyric, or walk you through the video frame by frame.
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