Last Night at the Telegraph Club Fan Casting Poster

Fan CastingLast Night at the Telegraph Club

by Malinda Lo

Story added by juliette21 on March 31, 2021

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible. But America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of...read more

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#gay #lesbian #romance #cute #1950s #lgbtq #chinese

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Role added by charlottehuntley on May 10, 2021

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Description of Shirley:

Shirley Lum is Lily’s childhood best friend. They have known each other all their lives. The bossy and demanding Shirley at first refuses to accept Lily’s friendship with Kath. Though she acts out of concern for Lily, Shirley cannot overcome her prejudices and opinions about the kinds of people Lily should spend her time with. When she discovers Lily is a lesbian, Shirley is appalled. However, she does try to protect her friend, but when Lily refuses to protect herself at the cost of lying about her identity, Shirley rejects her friendship.