Curve Magazine – December 2002
On the occasion of Jennifer Beals’s recent auction of an original pilot script of The L Word—originally titled Earthlings—for LGBTQIA charity GLSEN, it feels like the perfect time to revisit the early days of...
Category: Way Back When
Omitted Pilot Scene
An original introduction to Bette and Tina that never made the cut [Season 1, Episode 1 (Pilot), January 18, 2004]. INT. CALIFORNIA ART CENTER – MAIN GALLERY – AFTERNOON Alive with industry – gallery...
Tibette’s fate in the mind of a showrunner
Here’s the thing. It’s been way longer than nine months, and there’s no sign that you’re moving on. But, hey, we’re glad you’re still here – and we love that you have hope. We’re still here, too. And we’re just as curious as you are to see how this story plays out.
Prison Scene!
We wrote it. We shot it. We loved it. But the network didn’t. It was the rare instance in which we had a creative disagreement. Our executives simply felt that it was too soon for us to be spoofing ourselves. They felt that it was something to be attempted in a third or a fourth season, but not at the end of the first season, when the audience was still bonding with these characters.
Way Back When
Back in the day ourchart.com was groundbreaking. It “invented” interconnectivity even before Facebook took the stage. A website where LGBTQ+ could meet up with each other, share stories, discuss their favorite show, get links...
