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Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 17, 1992

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Documentary, History

User Score

64%

Original Title

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

Production Companies

ONF | NFB

Director

Aerlyn Weissman

Description

Ten women in Canada 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".