Guinevere Turner’s biggest fear is being boring. But from her role as a lesbian coming to terms with her sexuality in the raunchy romance Go Fish to her Dominatrix getup in Preaching to the Perverted, Turner is almost incapable of being a bore, especially during Thursday night’s BU Cinematheque interview in the College of Communication building.

Coordinated by Spectrum’s Vice President and College of Arts and Sciences freshman Tasnim Azad, the event focused on Turner’s career as a gay actress, writer and director.

Spectrum, BU’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Straight and Questioning Alliance, has 141 members in their Facebook contact group and about 40 members that regularly attend weekly meetings and a wide variety of events.

School of Theology graduate student Basil Considine said Spectrum and Sacred Worth, an analogous STH organization, exist relatively under the radar of the general student population.

“It’s there if you search the BU website, but it’s not well known unless you are specifically looking for it,” he said. “I had a friend who graduated from BU and was commenting on the existence of GLBTA groups at other schools, and I said to her, ‘you know, BU has one of those.’ She had no idea.”

But Spectrum’s events attract more than just their own members. Several students who attended the event Thursday were invited by friends in Spectrum, or were informed of the event through Cinematheque’s advertising campaign.

Regardless, the room was packed, and when the people sitting on the floor seemed settled in, Turner began to not bore her audience, drawing laughter throughout her presentation.

Turner said her first film idea began, as so many ideas do, with an interesting romantic relationship.

Turner and her then-girlfriend Rose Troche began working on what they thought would be a 30-minute film dealing with the serious and comical aspects of lesbian relationships.

Go Fish, shot with virtually no budget and features an array of women, none of whom were trained to act and all of whom are gay, boldly addresses the butch haircut, the pressure from the lesbian community to look “out enough” and focuses on portraying positive images of lesbians.

Turner said her current goal is quite the opposite.

“I really feel like one of the things that are underrepresented is the family dynamic,” she said.

When she and a writing partner were considering withdrawing from the writing team of the television series The ‘L’ Word, Turner said she felt a duty to see that it was done tastefully.

“We said, ‘this is going to get made, whether we are a part of it or not,'” she said. “It’s important that this gets done well, because if it doesn’t, it will send the wrong message … that lesbians can’t be interesting, lesbians can’t be funny, or that lesbianism isn’t an interesting topic.”

Though Turner did not return as Gabby for the third season, the show has been running for three seasons, and Turner said she expects it to remain popular for at least five, a record set by Queer as Folk.

Yet, after several successful lesbian films inspiring Kevin Smith’s Chasing Amy and making a name for herself, at least within the gay and lesbian community, Turner said she does not want to be pigeonholed.

Speaking for herself and fellow lesbian collaborators, Turner expressed that while a lot of her subject material deals with lesbian sexuality, it should not define their work.

“We want people to take us seriously,” she said. “We don’t want people to think that we wouldn’t be successful if we weren’t lesbians.”