“Not Losing You”

Not Losing You is a two+ minute micro-movie that was produced in 2024 to help prevent LGBTQ youth suicides in the wake of GOP-led anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and legislation sweeping the U.S.

It has been viewed over 2 million times on YouTube and TikTok.

“Not Losing You” is about preventing future suicides of trans and LGBTQ youth by creating and broadcasting a micro-movie supporting rural LGBTQ youth prior to the 2024 election season.

In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, five trans and non-binary youth suicides occurred in eighteen months. In Oklahoma, non-binary teen Nex Benedict died by suicide after a bullying incident involving a girls restroom. In New Hampshire a fourteen-year-old died by suicide by jumping from a highway overpass.

Anti-trans rhetoric and bullying was implicated in these suicides.

In April 2024, filmmaker James Lantz protested a MAGA politician, State Senator Ryan Aument, at the Pennsylvania State Capitol. Lantz did this to bring attention to the five trans and non-binary youth suicides that occurred in Aument’s county, Lancaster County, PA. State Senator Aument sponsored, supported and pushed many anti-LGBTQ legislations as GOP Majority Whip of the PA State Senate.

Lantz’s trial is set for late April 2025 in Harrisburg, PA.

You can learn more about this story and James Lantz’s activism at the web series, “Angry Gay Grandpa.”

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Both, “Not Losing You,” as well as the “Angry Gay Grandpa” web series, are projects produced by The Not Losing You Film Company, an independent non-profit film project that seeks to support trans and LGBTQ youth through filmed media.

The Not Losing You Company is a 501(c)(4) social welfare non-profit corporation.