In 1979, Beth Kelly published a letter in Toronto's Gay Community News that began with the words: “It's time.” Entitled “On ‘Woman/Girl Love’ or Lesbians Do ‘Do It,’” Kelly's piece appeared in the midst of an explosive controversy that followed
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In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 95–108 (14 total)
“Your Young Lesbian Sisters”
Queer Girls’ Voices in the Liberation Era
Amanda H. Littauer
it was scary. Today, all these things are more visible—more accepted—more a part of society. It's easier for young lesbians today. No, sisters, it's not. Because today, we knock on your doors and they remain shut in an airtight seal. We come to your
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 17–32 (16 total)
Beyond the Myth of Lesbian Montmartre
The Case of Chez Palmyre
Leslie Choquette
From the 1870s, lesbian Montmartre emerged as a popular subject for writers and artists seeking to represent Parisian modernity. Whether celebrated by Toulouse-Lautrec, caricatured by Forain, or castigated by Zola, Montmartre’s lesbians were
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 75–96 (22 total)
Secret Years
Hungarian Lesbian Herstory, 1950s–2000s
Anna Borgos
The article explores the personal narratives of middle-aged and elderly Hungarian lesbian women based on oral history interviews. The stories open a window into the Kádár era from a special perspective, allowing us to get a glimpse into the women's self-recognition and coming out process; their different (sexual, professional or maternal) identities, relationships, informal social scenes, and communities; their thinking about gender roles, as well as the available representations of lesbians over the decades. The women also discuss the freedom and greater visibility—as complex as it was—that came after the democratic transition. The article contributes more detailed knowledge about the situation of LGBT people in the region during the state socialist period and around the 1989 regime change.
The Kids Are All Right But the Lesbians Aren't
The Illusion of Progress in Popular Film
Vicki L. Eaklor
The film The Kids Are All Right, centered on a lesbian couple and their two teenage children, was released in 2010 following a media blitz selling it as a groundbreaking film. Many queer viewers (like this author) eagerly awaited this supposed step forward in lesbian representation, only to be disappointed once again by mainstream stereotypes and tropes. This article takes a close look at the film against the backdrop of lesbian images and themes in “Hollywood“ films, particularly in the last twenty years, and argues that continuities, while sometimes more subtle, override the illusion of progress in portraying lesbians. Finally, there is speculation about why genuine change in mainstream film may be impossible under current societal and economic systems.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 153–170 (18 total)
Tom Boellstorff
It is remarkable how few Westerners know that Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation (after China, India, and the United States), or that Indonesia is home to more Muslims than any other country. These basic facts should be enough to establish Indonesia’s importance for current world affairs. In this essay, however, I argue for paying attention to the life-worlds of gay and lesbian Indonesians. While this might seem an unconventional topic, these Indonesians’ lives provide valuable clues to how being ‘Indonesian’ gets defined and to the workings of nation-states more generally. They teach us how heteronormativity—the assumption that heterosexuality is the only normal or proper sexuality—plays a fundamental role in forming nation-states as “imagined communities.” In Indonesia and elsewhere, nation-states are modeled on a particular archetype of the nuclear family (husband, wife, and children, with the nation’s president as parent). In line with this model, nation-states often portray themselves as made up not just of individual citizens but of families, which almost always are assumed to be nuclear families despite the staggering range of family forms found in the world’s cultures. Restricting the family model to the heterosexual couple has been a key means by which the idea of the Indonesian nation (and other nations) has been promulgated and sustained. Thus, rather than see the exclusion of homosexuality as a latter-day response to an encroaching global gay and lesbian movement, this exclusion is most accurately understood as a point of departure by which the idea of ‘Indonesia’ comes to exist in the first place.
A Woman Would Marry a Woman
Reading Sifra on Lesbianism
Laliv Clenman
Sifra, otherwise known as Torat Kohanim, an early Palestinian midrash to Leviticus, has the dubious distinction of including the only prohibition of lesbianism in the entire corpus of classical rabbinic literature. 1 This prohibition consists
Expanding the Map of Sapphic Modernism(s)
A Transnational Approach to Queer Women's Writings in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Literature
Anna Dżabagina
relatively neglected territory in the vast research within lesbian studies. Diana Burgin pointed to this lacuna as early as 1993, intending to break scholarly silence with her study on women poets of the Silver Age. 2 Even though the last several decades
Ernst van der Wal
The negotiation of and resistance to national borders are central themes in the stories and images that lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender refugees produce in a contemporary global environment where forms of transnational movement is of
Talking My Way In
Reflections on the Journey of a Lesbian Feminist Queer Rabbi
Elli Tikvah Sarah
ordaining LGBT rabbis by Leo Baeck College on 23 June 2014. 1 The day was an acknowledgement of the achievement of the college – and also of the two lesbian rabbis, Sheila Shulman, z’l, and myself, who had set LBC on a new path, not just twenty-five years