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These First Girl I Loved Contest Winners Have a Blast Hanging with the Film's Stars
The couple that won the First Girl I Loved video contest got to hang out with its stars Dylan Gelula and Brianna Hildebrand as well as YouTubers Bria and Chrissy at the movie's premiere.
First, if you haven’t seen Kerem Sanga’s touching coming-of-age film First Girl I Loved starring Dylan Gelula (Casual, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) and out actress Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool), go straight to iTunes and get it!
The movie, about a high school outsider (Dylan) who falls for the popular girl (Brianna) is at once hopeful and heartbreaking, and it's stirred memories of actual first love, as evidenced by the winners of the First Girl I Loved contest.
The film premiered on Oct. 18, at Los Angeles’s Vista theater and two lucky women who won a contest the It Gets Better Project ran in conjunction with the film, got to spend the day hanging out in Hollywood along with Dylan, Brianna and the adorable YouTuber couple Bria and Chrissy.
The winners, Vicky and Dana Piscitelli answered the call from It Gets Better to submit a video about the first girl they loved, and it turns out they were high school sweethearts who are still together and a married couple 12 years later.
For Vicky’s winning heartfelt First Girl I Loved video, she and her wife were flown to Los Angeles and put up at a hotel before attending the First Girl I Loved premiere and after party.
Watch Vicky tell her contest-winning story along with exclusive snippets of the big day out with Dylan, Brianna, Bria and Chrissy!
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
