Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
Directed by Lynne Fernie, Aerlyn Weissman
TrailerNo community ratings yet on FilmStash · 0 membersOne score per member · Verified member ratings
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".Read moreLess
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".
The story
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".
Watch trailerCast & crew
Stephanie Morgenstern
Lynne AdamsMitch
Ann-Marie MacDonaldNarrator
Ann BannonSelfExplore the crew
- Director
- Lynne Fernie
- Director
- Aerlyn Weissman
- Writer
- Aerlyn Weissman
- Writer
- Lynne Fernie
- Producer
- Margaret Pettigrew
- Producer
- Ginny Stikeman
- Director of Photography
- Zoe Dirse
- Editor
- Cathy Gulkin
- Editor
- Denise Beaudoin