Watch Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1993) Free Online

Release Date: 1993

Cast: Lois M. Stuart, Jeanne Healy

Categories: Movies, Biography, Lgbt, Gender Issues, History, Language & Literature, Documentary

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives is a 1992 Canadian documentary film about the lives of lesbian women and their experiences of lesbian pulp fiction. It was written and directed by Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman and featured author Ann Bannon. It premiered at the 1992 Toronto Film Festival and was released in the United States on 4 August 1993. It was produced by Studio D, the women's studio of the National Film Board of Canada. The movie opens with a dramatized scene of two women saying goodbye at a train station, alluding that they were to run away together. One of... MORE

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives is a 1992 Canadian documentary film about the lives of lesbian women and their experiences of lesbian pulp fiction. It was written and directed by Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman and featured author Ann Bannon. It premiered at the 1992 Toronto Film Festival and was released in the United States on 4 August 1993. It was produced by Studio D, the women's studio of the National Film Board of Canada. The movie opens with a dramatized scene of two women saying goodbye at a train station, alluding that they were to run away together. One of the women, named "Beth" declines to go with "Laura" and leaves her at the station. A discussion of the impact of lesbian pulp fiction for women in the 1940s and 1950s begins, featuring Ann Bannon, discussing her experiences as a writer in the 1950s. Nine Canadian women are interviewed throughout the documentary: Keely, a butch woman living near Vancouver, Stephanie, also in Vancouver, Reva, in Victoria, B.C., Lois, also in Toronto, Nairobi, a black woman living in Montreal, Jeanne, also in Toronto, Amanda, a Haida woman who lived in several Canadian cities, Carol, a butch woman living in Ontario, LESS