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Tully Callender and Marlee Walchuk of the lesbian dance/pop singing duo Sugarbeach launched their RightOut TV LGBT Music Video Web TV channel on Halloween. Created, produced and hosted by the personal and professional partners, the channel is streaming music videos, interviews and live performances around the clock.
Callender and Walchuk got the idea for RightOut TV when they were creating their own music videos but couldn’t find a globally accessible TV station where LGBT artists could share their videos.
So far 37 artists have signed on to the project. While some of the entertainers may not be known to LGBT audiences, Callender and Walchuk hope that RightOut TV will spread the word in the community. “That was the biggest excitement to us that we could actually get these people exposed to the gay world,” Walchuck says.
“We have YouTube and One More Lesbian and there is Logo in the U.S. but we cannot access it here in Canada... we really wanted something that would go to every country,” Walchuk says.
The women admit that getting the channel ready has been a full time job. “We want to make sure that the artists contact details are at the end of every video,” Callender explains. “I am creating another video that gives the contact details to show after the person’s video... We’ve got some ‘It Gets Better’ PSAs so they have to be in the right place...” The women also had to convince LiveStream, which hosts the channel, that they had the proper permissions to use the artists’ videos. Their attention to detail help them cross that hurdle.
The duo records intros and currently is using their living room as a studio. “We have big professional lights and a backdrop and the two of us got dressed up and had some fun,” Walchuk says.
“It is quite tricky,” Callender says. “We realized you can’t just read their bios because it is really boring... So we tried to find something particularly interesting or quirky about that person.”
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