Summary Ten women, most of them in Vancouver or Toronto, talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own first affairs, the pain of breaking up, frequenting gay bars, facing police raids, men's responses, and the etiquette of butch and femme roles. Interspersed among the interviews and archival footage are four dramatized chapters from a pulp novel, "Forbidden Love": Laura leaves her hick town and heads for the city, where she meets Mitch in a bar. Sparks fly, and so do laughter and joy. Ann Bannon, one of the writers of those paperback novels about forbidden love, talks about the genre. View more details
Directed : Aerlyn Weissman Lynne Fernie
Written : Aerlyn Weissman Lynne Fernie
Stars : Keely Moll Stephanie Ozard Ann Bannon Reva Hutkin
Genres : Documentary
Release date : Jun 14, 1995
Countries of origin : Canada
Language : English French
Filming locations : The Canadian Railway Museum, 110 Saint-Pierre Street, Saint-Constant, Québec, Canada.
Production companies : National Film Board of Canada (NFB) Studio D
Summary Ten women, most of them in Vancouver or Toronto, talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own first affairs, the pain of breaking up, frequenting gay bars, facing police raids, men's responses, and the etiquette of butch and femme roles. Interspersed among the interviews and archival footage are four dramatized chapters from a pulp novel, "Forbidden Love": Laura leaves her hick town and heads for the city, where she meets Mitch in a bar. Sparks fly, and so do laughter and joy. Ann Bannon, one of the writers of those paperback novels about forbidden love, talks about the genre. View more details
Genres : Documentary
Release date : Jun 14, 1995
Countries of origin : Canada
Language : English French
Filming locations : The Canadian Railway Museum, 110 Saint-Pierre Street, Saint-Constant, Québec, Canada.
Production companies : National Film Board of Canada (NFB) Studio D
