#lesbian documentary

[that-butch-archivist]

the documentary "the aggressives" about poc butches is on streaming and can be bought idk if that's useful or anything but i just watched it and thought it fit in here

It's totally useful, thanks for reaching out!! I've not had time to watch this one myself yet but it's high on the list for ... whenever I get a moment. I've heard really good things and all, and--oh shit it's free on Tubi ... HMMM. Okay. Well. I know what I have to see later lol. xD

But yes, anon is right--for those interested in seeing more butches of color, or just butches in general, please take a look at "The Aggressives"!

"The Aggressives" on Wikipedia. "The Aggressives" (free to watch!) on Tubi.

[ourhistorytoo]

For Choosing Children: Launching the Lesbian Mom Boom (1985) Debra Chasnoff and Kim Klausner tell the story of 6 lesbian - headed families. In this interview, Rochelle Austin, describes being denied having her girlfriend in the room for support during her delivery.

Given the Black maternal and infant mortality rate discussion, it is notable that Rochelle had to be sedated several times and passed out. At what had to be one of the most frightening times in her life, she was denied basic human sympathy.

After this emergency, her social worker then asked who her girlfriend was. She had to explain in front of a board, hospital officials, and her social worker that her girlfriend was her lover. Her daughter was born prematurely and was in critical condition but this didn't stop nurses from mocking her and her girlfriend's desire to raise their child jointly.

What the nurses did would likely be considered "fine", by the same people who threaten violence for anything that might happen to their own families. Choosing Children: Launching the Lesbian Mom Boom (1985) can be found on Kanopy. I haven't found it streaming anywhere else.

Interestingly, there are a few articles on Newspapers.com about this video. One even features a picture of Rochelle and her son, Elhorin, who also appears in the film's trailer.

[kyleesi]

I came across a clip of this woman and found her to be so charming ❤️

As far as I know, her name is Diane Porath and she was interviewed in a short lesbian documentary video from 1986. I'm not sure if this was a standalone work or part of a bigger project or if Diane herself was ever in anything else but the video I watched is here on the UCLA Film & Television Archive youtube channel if anyone would like to check it out.

[shushmal]

okay you know the american express skate shop commercial?

eddie who co-ownes a skate shop despite having only been on skateboard twice in his life (he broke his arm the second time) but gareth loves skating more than drums, and the band never went anywhere but his skate career DID, so eddie somehow wound up taking care of gareth's shop while he travels the world breaking his bones. eddie's clientele is a pretty narrow group, until fucking steve harrington himself (his hs school crush) comes into the shop asking for a board for his daughter.

months of awkward flirting later, eddie finds out max is a big fan of gareth and that night eddie is curled around gareth's ankles chanting "please please please please please please please" and gareth throws up his hands and agrees to meet them.

that weekend eddie happily gets to hang off steve's shoulder while gareth and max are tearing up a half pipe. max is happy, so steve is happy, and gareth is impressed with max's talent and keeps getting more and more into coaching her through a few little tricks, and eddie may never get into steve's pants, but anything is worth seeing steve smile, so happy and excited for his kid and—oh fuck, eddie's in love fucking shitting fuck

meanwhile, steve spends each morning lamenting to robin as they get their bakery ready for the day how he'll die alone because eddie won't ask him out and robin keeps yelling at him, all exasperated "why don't YOU ask him out then??" and steve pouts because that's no fun

anyways one day eddie wanders into the shop not even realizing that steve works there (luckily he's doing a delivery atm), and robin sees eddie from all the way in the back and beelines it out so eddie just randomly gets accosted by the bread lesbian hissing "i need you to dick down and marry steve already or i WILL kill him, i'll drown him in the sourdough."

eddie walks back out thinking robin's some kind of prophet or psychic, he has no idea that she actually knows steve.

but who is he to argue with a fate-sayer? and he fulfills part of the prophecy that very night.

[pinkorchidsinspring]

I was rewatching Miss. Americana because it’s pride month and why not. ANYWAYS I don’t really remember if I’m being honest, but did we all completely ignore the LESBIAN FLAG OF A CANOPY IN TAYLORS HOME’S DINING ROOM?!

Like um-

But you know maybe she just really likes those colors 😉

[hermitcraft-alignment-charts]

personally i think doc dismantles the entire fountain and drinks straight from the pipe

[lesbiansovereverything]

On June 26, 2003, the U.S Supreme Court ruled in favor of two gay men who had been arrested by police officers in Texas for having sex in their own home. The court maintained that the state could not “demean [the men’s] existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime.” x Following this landmark decision, Newsweek magazine released a pair of covers that featured either a gay male couple or a lesbian couple alongside the question “Is Gay Marriage Next?” A closeted teenage girl in Pennsylvania saw a happy lesbian couple on the cover of one of the most popular magazines in the country and found the courage to come out. Two decades later, she tracked them down to thank them for “giving her hope that a normal life was possible.”

Continue Reading on LesbiansOverEverything.Com

[desbianherstory]

Category: Woman (2022, dir. Phyllis Ellis). Stream here.

When 18-year-old South African runner Caster Semenya burst onto the world stage in 2009, her championship was not celebrated, but marred by doubt, her personal medical records leaked to the international media. The public scrutiny of her body, driven by racism and sexism, questioning the most fundamental right of who she is, a great champion. The International Amateur Athletics Federation (now World Athletics) then ruled that targeted female athletes must medically alter their healthy bodies in order to compete. Their naturally high androgen levels, 'deemed' a performance advantage. Category: Woman focuses on four remarkable athletes, from the Global South, forced out of competition by these regulations, the devastation to their bodies, and their lives. Equally arresting is their passion for sport is further emboldened by their conviction to stand up for their human rights. Following her award-winning film Toxic Beauty, filmmaker and Olympian Phyllis Ellis exposes an industry controlled by men putting women’s lives at risk while the policing of women’s bodies in sport remains, in a more nefarious way, under the guise of fair play.

Breaking from this blog's hiatus to post this in light of the racist bullying of Imane Khelif. I'd recommend everyone watch it (it's only 76 min) for an understanding of the issues at play - how the false, easily digestible narrative of "fairness" in fact means unfairness and racist mistreatment for these extraordinary women. Even the introduction is powerful:

"Some bodies are marked. The gender that goes unmarked as male. Women are maked in all the ways that they are different. The unmarked race is white. Some bodies that are black and brown and female have a particular kind of marking. These bodies are marked as insufficiently human. How do you castigate a category of people as insufficiently human? By throwing their gender into doubt."

Dutee Chand, India's first openly lesbian athlete is interviewed in this documentary about the racist mistreatment and scrutiny she received for these issues.

Please watch and spread!

[duine-aiteach]

https://gcn.ie/queer-women-irish-revolution-tg4-documentary/

Directed by Ciara Hyland, Croíthe Radacacha (Radical Hearts) is a feature documentary that explores the hidden stories of eight female couples who were at the core of the Easter Rising and the fight to free Ireland from the British Empire.

Featuring contributions from prominent LGBTQ+ activists and academics such as Ailbhe Smyth, Ciara Ní É and Eoin McEvoy (founders of LGBTQ+ Irish Language group Aerach Aiteach Gaelach), this in-depth exploration promises to refocus how we perceive these women and their contributions to the Irish revolution.

Croíthe Radacacha will air on Wednesday, December 6, at 9:30pm on TG4.

For anyone wondering, TG4 have a free online player which usually has subtitles in English. The player is also available outside Ireland.

[queerism1969]

[that-butch-archivist]

I feel like this is a video that likely everyone has seen by now, but if you haven't ... please, enjoy a lovely 11 minute documentary about butches and studs. :)

[ourhistorytoo]

A clip of Achebe Betty Powell from the documentary Word Is Out: The Story of Our Lives (1977). Word Is out spliced the interviews of 26 queer people together and is a notable landmark in queer history. The documentary is 2 hours and 12 minutes long.

Powell was an activist with the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice and what was originally called the National Gay (now LGBTQ) Task Force. Powell was the first Black lesbian to serve on the board of directors of the National Gay Task Force for several years and served as the director of the Kitchen Table Press.

When people talk about feminists ruining the Black community, they're including women like Achebe Betty Powell who were pioneers and visionaries who in the fight for human rights. These are not nameless faceless people or ideologies, they were human beings who actually existed and were working to make the world a better place.

This history is our history, too.

Update: According to Greg Youman's book, Word is Out: Queer Cinema Classic , an interview with Audre Lorde was excluded. The Mariposa Film Group ultimately failed in the representation that Achebe Betty Powell hoped the film would achieve.

[celluloidrainbow]

SHAKEDOWN (2018) dir. Leilah Weinraub ‘Shakedown’ was a series of parties founded by and for black women in Los Angeles that featured go-go dancing and strip shows for the city’s lesbian underground scene. Inspired by trans woman Mahogany who, as the mother of the scene, presided over queer strip shows and balls for non-heterosexual audiences in the 1980s, butch Ronnie Ron created, produced and presented the new shows. In them, the largely female clientele slipped dollar notes into lap dancers’ panties while celebrating lesbian sexuality to pulsating hip-hop beats. (link in title)

[sammaggs]

Vintage 1996 Hard Core Logo poster you are the best early birthday present 🫡

[decayayhagfishh]

Victorian Lesbian Vampire Au Rosemary I Doodled on the Back of my Collageblock (???) at school 2day

.......:P

YAYYAYAYAYYAAAYAayAYA,,!

My secondary teacher saw me Drawing and just Said "Wow, why don't you do Something Art related in the Future?" MF I LITERALLY SAID THAT I WANT TO ILLUSTRATE IN THE FUTURE. AND THEN I HAD TO SHOW THIS AROUND TO OTHERS IN THE ROOM. You cannot escape the Homestuck. Don't ever Sneak Up on me again. Cut it with that Tomfoolery. Absolute Nonsense. This calls for a Public beheading. Bring Out the Guillotine. How the Flip do you even write that. Actually forget it, We are going to torture you by strapping you to a Chair and watch Gameplay of Your Boyfriend aka the worst fucking Game ever.

[fitzrove]

Watching a recently released Finnish queer history documentary (🥹🥹🥹) and I was today years old when I found out famous translator Kersti Juva (known most famously for doing LOTR & influencing the entire landscape of Finnish-language fantasy literature) is gay!!!!!!!!!!!!! And she's married to her wife too! 🥹🥺🥺