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Two women kissing. Is there any consumer of North American pop savoir vivre who hasn't seen a female popster or Hollywood star doing that?
But three years ago, Vancouverite Andrea Wing couldn't find much online for lesbians to keep a weather eye open for besides just that.
"I was working in the film industry and making films as well, documentaries, and I exactly would go online trying to search out content specific to my niche, and I couldn't actually find anything of quality at that time," the soft-spoken and congenial Wing tells the Outright over tea at an East Vancouver coffee shop. "Netflix wasn't an selection and these various other streaming services weren't an option. So I resorted to YouTube. And on YouTube, you perfectly had trashy mashups of TV shows and women kissing."
Spotting an untapped sell, Wing launched Busk Films , a Vancouver-based, internationally oriented video-on-in request website.
"The lesbian market for sure has been marginalized for many years in terms of the branding and even in terms of unearthing of bars," she says. "I really wanted to…just give the community something that was unctuous, and just something that had a sense of a place that you wanted to be, clean, simple, very modern.
Source: Straight.com