Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

Name: Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1995-06-15
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Keely Moll, Stephanie Ozard, Ann Bannon

19921992
1h 25min

7.3/10

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Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1992)

Documentary

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... Read allTen 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... Read allTen 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 fo... Read all

7.3/10

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Directors
- Lynne Fernie
- Aerlyn Weissman
Writers
- Lynne Fernie
- Aerlyn Weissman
Stars

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Awards
- 2 wins

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. —<jhailey@hotmail.com>

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Genre
- Documentary
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Connections
Featured in SexTV: Portland: Strip City U.S.A./Strange Sisters: The Golden Age of Lesbian Pulp (2002)

Soundtracks
Stupid Cupid
Performed by Connie Francis
Courtesy of Polygram Records (Canada)

Top review

8/10

Just great

I caught this documentary back in a repertory theatre back in 1992. I haven't seen it since but I never forgot it. It's basically talks with lesbian writers who talk about writing and having published books about lesbian lovers. Also they talk about what it was like in lesbian bars back then.

Some people may think that this will only appeal to a limited audience (i.e. gay and lesbian) but I saw it with a straight friend and he was fascinated. The talks are lively and fun--there's no despair or negativity. One writer speaks openly about fighting with publishers to have her books have happy endings! Interspered is a sequence in which two women meet in a bar (no dialogue), go to one of their houses and has sex. I have no problem with that, but the sequence seems way too explicit for this. Still this is an excellent documentary about a subject that is never covered. How about one with gay male writers?

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