Here’s how Matt Cullen’s ‘Our Queer Life’ YouTube series caught on

This article originally appeared on Passionfruit.

Matt Cullen’s “Our Queer Life” started as a creative outlet during the pandemic. Cullen, a documentarian, dreamed of featuring different slices of the queer experience in a YouTube series. In order to get interviews with people like a former gay Jehovah’s Witness and a gay teacher-turned-escort, he had to hustle, and it’s taken him all over the country. 

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