“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 was sentenced for “criminal mischief” and ordered to pay nearly $17,000 in fines and restitution in July 2025.

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.