Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1992) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1992 · 85 mins · English

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Directed by

Aerlyn Weissman, Lynne Fernie

Starring

Ann Bannon, George Thomas, Lynne Adams, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Marie-Jo Thério, Stephanie Morgenstern

In Canada, ten women recount their experiences as lesbians during the 1940s‑1960s, describing how they discovered contemporary pulp fiction about female love, their first affairs, heartbreak, visits to gay bars, police raids, reactions from men, and the social codes of butch and femme identities. Their testimonies are woven with archival footage and four dramatized chapters from the period pulp novel “Forbidden Love”.