We all remember our first encounter with love ….. whether it be just a crush or an actual kiss . So thus this new Australian YouTube web series ‘My First Time’ may bring back your happy memories. This series on ‘We Are Pride‘ channel is made for queer people and their allies by members of the community.
From coming out, crushes, gender identity, love and heartbreak, and allyship to family, death, suicide, and sex, the series will explore the transformative nature of queer first experiences. Logie nominated Pasifika New Zealander, Kween Kong, comedian, writer and content creator Aurelia St Clair and internationally acclaimed playwright Wesley Enoch AM are among the ten talents to share their truly personal journeys. Additional LGBTQIA+ community members joining for season one:
- Katherine Wolfgramme, prominent trans elder and advocate, who created legal precedence in Fiji, her country of birth as the first transgender woman to legally obtain a female name;
- DQ, “78er” and a lesbian and feminist activist since the mid-1970s, who wrote ‘Shift’ what is said to be the first lesbian play in Australia;
- Seren Bakir, non-binary Turkish-Australian model and TikTok creator celebrated for their honest dialogues on queerness and autism;
- Rosie Delaney, Australia’s premier transgender lesbian comedian;
- Dyan Tai, Self-described as the Gaysian Empress of Sydney, he/they is an unapologetically queer Chinese-Australian electronic musician and performance artist;
- Steven Spencer, an award-winning bisexual advocate, writer, and researcher for the bi+community and for people living with HIV, and he is a proud ambassador for the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation;
- Adrian Mouhajer, queer non-binary Lebanese-Australian writer and editor from Western Sydney whose work centers on their experiences, spirituality, desire, love, grief, and understanding.
“My First Time” marks the first Australian-made original series for VA Media’s ‘We Are Pride’ YouTube channel, which boasts over 400,000 subscribers and 45 million views across its catalog of LGBTQIA+ documentary, reality, drama, and movie content. The series premieres globally on the YouTube channel with its first episode on Friday, 16 February, with new episodes premiering every Friday until 19 April.
Labels: 2024, Australian, My First Time, We Are Pride Channel, You Tube series
