Hayley Kiyoko’s Feature Film ‘Girls Like Girls’ Took a Decade to Make. Now That It’s Here, She Hopes It’s Just the Beginning for Sapphic Media

By Arushi Jacob

Arushi Jacob

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“Girls Like Girls” has been a long time in the making. Originally released as a music video in 2015 by musician Hayley Kiyoko, the tune with the lyrics “Girls like girls, just like boys do” quickly became a sapphic anthem, amassing 163 million views on YouTube to date. “After we released the music video, I saw thousands of comments from fans saying, ‘I wish I could go see a film like this. I thought to myself: I’ve never been able to see a movie like this before,” Kiyoko tells Variety. “It planted this seed, and it’s been an extreme challenge of 10 years convincing the industry and the world that our voice matters; that being a queer woman of color is not niche, it is mainstream. There are millions of us, and we deserve to have stories that we can count beyond just our two hands.”

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