Transcendence, Vision of Inclusivity for Red as Blue

Red is Blue is about a Mexican-Armenian girl named June Lusparian, who’s struggling to fit in with society during the 1980s, when being gay or gender fluid was very difficult. She is an aspiring musician and she’s struggling to figure out where she belongs in the world in terms of her talents and abilities.

The fact that she’s Mexican arm Romanian, and she doesn’t fit into the Chicano culture. June Lusparian, this girl that’s living in a really what I consider to be a dark, dark time in American history in the 1980s.

Because even though the eighties was great for a lot of people, if you were running with a cool crowd and driving, a sports car and were blonde and listening to Bon Jovi, and all that great rock and roll stuff, if you were not part of that scene, and if you were different in any way, you basically belong. And that was June’s world. So, I think my story is pretty close to like a LGBTQ version of Romeo and Juliet meets Lord of the Flies. And the Lord of the Flies part comes in because you see a lot of power struggles going on in the story, these power struggles in the story.

Comes from the fact that Red as Blue has historical fiction in it. It’s my way of sort of explaining how something like the Columbine shooting and the epidemic of high school shootings can happen. From my point of view, it had a lot to do with the kids and the story, not having much leadership, truthfully, that’s what June is looking for in her life. Some form of leadership and someone to help her guide her through this coming of age process of becoming a woman.