Our Commitment

Have you ever yearned to be someone or do something but found yourself held back by life’s circumstances? What’s the harm in bending the truth, just a little, to chase what feels unattainable?

At the end of the 20th century, Chris—a young gay man—navigated the harrowing tides of the AIDS crisis, all while wrestling with a family legacy of alcoholism and the suffocating weight of toxic shame. In a moment of desperation, he told a lie—a seemingly harmless action but, with deliberate intention; to defy a system telling him no. 

Now, decades later, a sober and hardened Chris is forced to confront the ghost of his deceit. It returns, not as a distant memory, but as the living embodiment of his deepest desires and darkest fears. What begins as an unearthing of his past spirals into a reckoning, exposing how the lie has hollowed his relationships, stalled his career, and rendered him a shadow of the man he might have been.

Haunted by blistering nightmares of his youth and trapped in the scars of his abusive upbringing, Chris must grapple with the full weight of his choices. In the midst of a life-threatening tragedy, he faces a self-shattering realization: the only way to rebuild is to destroy the carefully constructed facade of his life.

Winged is a raw, evocative exploration of survival, identity, and the devastating cost of living inauthentically. Set against the backdrop of a defining era in LGBTQ+ history, this emotionally charged drama is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the transformative power of facing the truth.

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.