Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

7.4
1992

Genre: Documentary

About: The moving pciture Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives was first seen in the year 1992. Soap2day provided links that you can view and you can add subtitles of your choice to every one of them.

Plot: 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. Read More