Unexpected Love Stories Reverie's LGBTQ+ Community Impact

What this short covers

The importance of building investor relationships before needing capital, as exemplified by Revry, an LGBTQ-first streaming service that secured funding from top-tier investors.

Transcript

I've been here for like two days wanting to talk to me. And it wasn't until about the third or fourth person in line who basically stopped me and said, "You don't know why all these these last few minutes want to talk to you." I'm like, "No, I don't." She pulls out her phone and she's like, "Let me show you something." And she turns on Tinder and she starts swiping and they say women who love women. They don't necessarily use the term lesbian at that time. And all of the images on Tinder were images from the other love story, the project that we had licensed and distributed and branded as our original and really pushed out and had all this great traction from an audience in India. I started to cry because I was like, "Oh my gosh, here's a facet of my community that I would have never met had I not taken this experience that um I didn't realize what we were building with Rey would touch

them in a way that they did for fear of like losing their job, discretion, or being outed at work, you

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