The singer\u2019s hit 2015 single Girls Like Girls was her breakthrough moment and also the first time she felt confident in her sexuality. Now she has directed a film based on the song \u2013 a love letter to her 17-year-old self<\/p>\n
A lot of Hayley Kiyoko\u2019s teenage summers were spent waiting, bored and pining, as she sat at the computer willing her crush to message her back on AOL instant messenger. Like Coley, the 17-year-old protagonist of Girls Like Girls, the film the pop star has co-written and directed, Kiyoko fell hard for a girl who \u201cput me through my own heartbreak and haunted me for a long time\u201d, she says.<\/p>\n
Although the 35-year-old singer became known by fans as \u201clesbian Jesus\u201d following the release of her breakthrough single Girls Like Girls in\u00a02015 (the film is an extended version of the story first told in the song\u2019s music video), feeling comfortable in her sexuality didn\u2019t actually come until after its release. Her gay identity was, at the time, the topic she was \u201cthe\u00a0most scared of writing about\u201d, and the song\u2019s confident refrain \u201cGirls like girls like boys do, nothing new\u201d came from wanting to \u201cmanifest feeling confident\u201d.<\/p>\n
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