Our Commitment

Have you ever harbored a secret desire to do or become something but wouldn't allow yourself to do or be it? Maybe there were circumstances in your life that wouldn't permit it. Regardless, you were committed to finding a way so...what's the harm in a little lie? Right?

At the end of the 20th Century, Chris, a gay man who like many of his contemporaries was still awkwardly maneuvering his way through the obstacles of the AIDS crisis. He was also unsuccessfully fighting off a family legacy of alcoholism and holding tight to a belief system steeped in toxic shame.

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Now, the present day, a sober Chris faces a lie he told many years ago when it resurfaces as the exact manifestation of his greatest desire and fear. It exposes how he has eroded his relationships, career and turned himself into a shell of a man.  

Chris, like a feral animal desperate to escape captivity, sees the truth of his cynical life for the first time. 

Memories from his youth taunt him in blistering nightmares and interlace his adult life with the resurfacing of his abusive past. As he stands face to face with what his lie has become, desperation and shame brings him to a self-shattering realization in the midst of a life threatening tragedy.

During the last forty years of the 20th Century, LGBTQ+ people emerged proudly out of their respective closets fighting for civil rights and rewrote the history books. While that was happening a serial killer stocked gay communities and killed with relentless animosity. The killer was AIDS. That said, it’s hard to tell a story about the surviving LGBTQ+ folk today without some residual of that still ongoing and unthwarted human tragedy. This story is no exception. 

In these current times full of political volatility and civil unrest, it is more important than ever we continue to stand up and tell our individual and community stories. It is paramount that we never stop demanding our basic and most fundamental birthright here in America, equality. 

We believe here at Create Don't Wait, regardless of what might appear to be more powerful on the opposing side we must remain steadfast in our mission to tell stories about the LGBTQ+ community without any excuses or explanations why.