1992|84 min|Documentary
THE STORY
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.
THE STORY
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.
CAST & CREW
Cast
Keely Moll
Stephanie Ozard
Ann Bannon
Reva Hutkin
Lois M. Stuart
Nairobi
Jeanne Healy
Amanda White
Carol Ritchie-MacKintosh
Ruth Christine
Stephanie Morgenstern
Lynne Adams
Marie-Jo Therio
Director
Lynne Fernie
Aerlyn Weissman
INFORMATION
Production company
National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Genre
Documentary
Released
1992
Age rating
Unknown
LANGUAGES
Audio
English
Subtitles
None