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Forbidden Love
Original Title
The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives- Director: Lynne Fernie; Aerlyn Weissman
- Writer: Lynne Fernie; Aerlyn Weissman
- Producer: Rina Fraticelli; Margaret Pettigrew
CGiii Comment
The lesbian pulp fiction of the 50s and 60s is discussed...
Women who found a vent for the feelings tell their stories...and, it is rather charming.
The little vignettes are tastefully done.
This is contemporary social history at its best...a document of lives led less publicly.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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 & Characters
Keely Moll as Herself;
Stephanie Ozard as Herself;
Ann Bannon as Herself;
Reva Hutkin as Herself;
Lois M. Stuart as Herself;
Nairobi as Herself;
Jeanne Healy as Herself;
Amanda White as Herself;
Carol Ritchie-MacKintosh as Herself;
Ruth Christine as Herself;
Stephanie Morgenstern as Laura;
Lynne Adams as Mitch;
Marie-Jo Therio as Beth;
George Thomas as Bill;
Lory Wajnberg as Bartender