Interview with Winning Screenwriter Vance Walker (GO-GO BOY)

 July 2018 LGBT Feature Screenplay Winner

Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about?

Vance Walker: It’s about a go-go boy in 1990 and his co-workers living a fun, raunchy life— colorful and sexy, kind of like a gay Flashdance, until AIDS starts hitting close to home.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Hard to say since there is a lot of music and dancing, but it is not a musical in the purist sense of the word. Is there a Comedy/Drama/Romance/LGBT/AIDS genre? If pressed, I would have to say Drama/Romance.

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

When I see something like “POSE” or Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, I am so happy and grateful for the documentation of these past times, which tell our stories and hardships and histories and how far we have come— and poignantly tell these stories with such…