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In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer
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3/6/2025
A feature film that documents the history and impact of lesbian fiction from the 1920s through the 1990s. Narrator Lilli | dG1famtyM1pRVU9nZnM
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00:00
A Radcliffe Hall.
00:04
The Well of Loneliness.
00:05
The Well of Loneliness.
00:07
The Well of Loneliness.
00:08
The Well of Loneliness.
00:09
The Well of Loneliness was kind of the entree to lesbian literature for so many people.
00:15
At 15, my best friend and I fell in love.
00:20
While the adults went to the bars, the kids went to the ice cream parlor.
00:23
That's also where we found our first lesbian poems.
00:31
You could take a book home and under the covers at night, with a flashlight or something,
00:36
you could enter a world.
00:39
It was not a friendly time, and we all hid behind pseudonyms of one kind or another.
00:46
The acquisitions editor said, your character is black, a lesbian, and a vampire.
00:55
That's too confusing.
00:58
And I'm thinking, who do you think your market is going to be, like two-year-olds?
01:06
Heather has two mommies, two roommates, Mama Jane and Mama Kate.
01:11
Nice and cute.
01:12
Mama Jane has a no-nukes sweatshirt on.
01:16
It's never been a separation in my life between my identity, not just as a lesbian, but as
01:23
a particularly difficult, provocative, angry, working-class lesbian.
01:34
I was a feminist, and still am, and the anti-porn movement had gotten cranked up.
01:40
I wanted to write about a different kind of feminism, a feminism that was sex-positive.
01:46
I wrote it purely for the passion of telling the story, and just wanting to write in ways
01:52
that I hoped felt sort of authentic about lesbian sex, and fun, and just capture the
01:59
deliciousness, really, of lesbian love and lesbian sex.
02:07
People come up and they get very worshipful, you know, and some of them cry, and they say,
02:11
you changed my life.
02:12
And I say, I did not change your life.
02:14
I opened a door.
02:15
You still had to have the courage to go through it.
02:18
Take credit.
02:19
You did it.
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