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Lesbische Filme

The last part of our series about how lesbians are portrayed in mainstream movies. Featuring “Heavenly Creatures”, “Bound”, and other films.

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Lesbische Filme

We’re heading from the 1970’s to the early 1990’s, when lesbians started to be portrayed in a better way in mainstream movies. Hollywood got it almost right, but not quite. The movies portrayed this time are: Personal Best, starring Mariel Hemingway, The Hunger (Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon and David Bowie), The Color Purple with Whoopi Goldberg, and – of course – Fried Green Tomatoes.

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Lesbische Filme

Lesbians at the movies from the 1940’s until the 1960’s were portrayed in a disturbing way. The fate of these characters was of course always an unhappy one and often ended in death. Any young lesbian looking for a good onscreen role model during this time had no chance at all.

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Lesbische Filme

The first article on our blog in English – about lesbians in mainstream movies. Part 1 of 4

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