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Creator of Singaporean gay drama Getaway wants to raise acceptance of LGBT community in the city state
- Sean Foo’s web series Getaway is billed as Singapore’s first gay BL (boy love) drama series and launches on May 23
- Set in Bangkok, the drama is designed to be ‘an authentic gay voice for a gay audience’ and features an openly queer cast from Singapore and Thailand
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Sean Foo was in his final year of university in Singapore in 2015 when he founded Dear Straight People, an LGBT media platform that now reaches, on average, about 300,000 people a month.
“It was an outlet for my passion for content creation,” says Singaporean Foo via Zoom from Bangkok, in Thailand, where he moved three years ago for work.
On May 23, Foo will see another dream become a reality: the launch of his five-episode web series Getaway, billed as Singapore’s “first gay BL drama series”.
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“BL is ‘boy love’, which has become an umbrella term for any Asian drama centring on a gay love story,” he says. “Making one has been on my bucket list for the longest time and, in 2022, all the stars aligned in the sense that I finally had the network and the resources to make it happen.”
Foo has his creative fingerprints all over the series: he plays the protagonist Sam, it is his first acting role and he also wrote the script – with some help.
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