In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A feature film that documents the history and impact of lesbian fiction from the 1920s through the 1990s. Narrator Lilli | dG1famtyM1pRVU9nZnM

Transcript

00:00A Radcliffe Hall.

00:04The Well of Loneliness.

00:05The Well of Loneliness.

00:07The Well of Loneliness.

00:08The Well of Loneliness.

00:09The Well of Loneliness was kind of the entree to lesbian literature for so many people.

00:15At 15, my best friend and I fell in love.

00:20While the adults went to the bars, the kids went to the ice cream parlor.

00:23That's also where we found our first lesbian poems.

00:31You could take a book home and under the covers at night, with a flashlight or something,

00:36you could enter a world.

00:39It was not a friendly time, and we all hid behind pseudonyms of one kind or another.

00:46The acquisitions editor said, your character is black, a lesbian, and a vampire.

00:55That's too confusing.

00:58And I'm thinking, who do you think your market is going to be, like two-year-olds?

01:06Heather has two mommies, two roommates, Mama Jane and Mama Kate.

01:11Nice and cute.

01:12Mama Jane has a no-nukes sweatshirt on.

01:16It's never been a separation in my life between my identity, not just as a lesbian, but as

01:23a particularly difficult, provocative, angry, working-class lesbian.

01:34I was a feminist, and still am, and the anti-porn movement had gotten cranked up.

01:40I wanted to write about a different kind of feminism, a feminism that was sex-positive.

01:46I wrote it purely for the passion of telling the story, and just wanting to write in ways

01:52that I hoped felt sort of authentic about lesbian sex, and fun, and just capture the

01:59deliciousness, really, of lesbian love and lesbian sex.

02:07People come up and they get very worshipful, you know, and some of them cry, and they say,

02:11you changed my life.

02:12And I say, I did not change your life.

02:14I opened a door.

02:15You still had to have the courage to go through it.

02:18Take credit.

02:19You did it.