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| | | | | | Queer Pioneers II: More Early Lesbian Fiction | | |  | | | Continue the journey through the 1950s and '60s authors and 25-cent paperback originals that defined and celebrated the lives of countless lesbians in their coming-of-age years. Join us as we illuminate the "forbidden love" and "twilight zones" of Manhattan's lesbian landscape long, long ago. Rare film clips.
The Lesbian Landscape With Cecelia Martin
Cecelia Martin, former manager of the Oscar Wilde Bookshop, on lesbian pioneer Virginia Woolf plus 1950s lesbian authors Mary Renault, March Hastings, Kimberly Kemp, Dorothy Baker, Fletcher Flora and Donald E. Westlake. View scenes from Walk on the Wild Side, Orlando, The Scent of Hyacinths, The Killing of Sister George and The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant.
Amy Scholder on Tereska Torres
Madame Torres, now 90 and living in Paris, has just rewritten her 1950 classic, Women's Barracks, a novelistic memoir of her life in the Free French Forces during the London blitz of World War II. Amy Scholder of the Feminist Press joins us for our discussion also covering Torres' Colette-based novel By Cecile.
Ann Bannon on the Beebo Brinker Chronicles
The creator of Beebo Brinker returns to discuss I Am A Woman, Journey to a Woman and Women in the Shadow. Bannon's work raises complex gender issues and lifestyle changes unique to lesbians of all ages.
Marcia Gallo on Valerie Taylor
Professor Gallo, author of Different Daughters and historian specializing in gender and sexuality, now teaching at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, deconstructs Taylor's early Girls In 3-B plus the four-novel 1960s series with Erika Frohman, a concentration camp survivor and second-gen Beebo Brinker. | |
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| Brief Biography Kurt Brokaw is associate teaching professor at The New School and film critic for The Independent. |
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