Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

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• Genre(s): Documentary, History
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Lynne Fernie, Christine Lalande, Aerlyn Weissman, Vicki Frodsham
• Cast(s): Stephanie Morgenstern, Lynne Adams, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Marie-Jo Thério, George Thomas See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 25min
• Music: Jackie Newell,Charline Boudreau,Chris Crilly,Kathryn Moses,Justine Pimlott
• Award(s): GLAAD Media 1994 (Won) Awards List
• Similar To: The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo, Meet Me in the Bathroom
• 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.
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