by Staff writer
A woman who had her heart broken when her boyfriend came out as gay has turned her pain into a feature-length documentary about others in the same position.
Monica Davidson is quite open about her heartache over falling in love with a gay man – and she is now determined to chronicle the plight of other straight women who have wandered down the same lane.
In fact, the 46-year-old from Sydney is almost ready to debut her own film about it which is over a decade in the making.
‘The funny thing about women falling in love with gay men, is that the woman has always been painted as a bit of an idiot,’ Monica told FEMAIL.
‘People ask: “How could she not have have known?” and women have really tortured themselves over that.’
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| Monica Davidson (pictured) is quite open about her heartache over falling in love with a gay man – and she is now determined to chronicle the plight of other straight women who have wandered down the same lane. |
Downcast when her in-the-closet boyfriend dumped her as an impressionable 20-year-old, the mother-of-three says ladies in the same boat are often the subject of ridicule, rather than pity.
‘Because he wasn’t out publicly I then had to say he didn’t love me, but it wasn’t true, he just didn’t love me in that way,’ Monica explained.
‘I bore the brunt of that and I carried it on my 20-year-old shoulders.’
She describes herself as a fierce advocate for gay equality in Australia but is hell-bent on sharing the unsung story of the straight women who are the gays’ ‘staunchest allies’.
Monica has spent the past 12 years funding and creating a documentary called ‘Handbag‘ which she says celebrates and shines a light on the straight, female support network for the LGBTQ community.
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Credit: The Daily Mail
