A Radical Lesbian Neighborhood in the '90s | Womontown | Full Documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มี.ค. 2022
- A story about an intentional urban lesbian community in Kansas City, Missouri told by the women who founded it and lived there. Organized in 1990, and transforming 14 city blocks in the Longfellow neighborhood into a revolutionary community by and for women.
In the late 1980s, women regularly found themselves on the outside looking in. Between the gender pay gap, a distinct lack of representation in government and federal leadership, and the inability to secure a home loan without the signature of a husband or parent, obstacles were abundant. For women - and specifically, queer women - this obstruction to homeownership was one more setback to achieving independence in a male-dominated society.
In Kansas City, Drea Nedelsky and her girlfriend, Maryann Hopper, had a vision. They imagined a neighborhood where they could be themselves without fear, a place where women could walk hand-in-hand down the street without the judgments and criticisms normally encountered in the “straight world.”
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So proud of our movement and this film.
As you should be! If patriarchy didn’t exist, this would be in history books ❤
That was awesome.,acceptance is good
You are a hero!
Maryannhopper you are literally a hero. Sending much love!
I had the privilege to move into an apartment in Womontown around 1990. As a couple of friends and I started to unload the moving van, a woman stopped by in her jeep to ask if someone was moving in. One of my friends, Cheryl Peters, who knew the woman introduced me as the new resident. I was surprised when she replied that she was headed home to park her jeep and that she would be back to help move my stuff inside. Not long after, several women came walking from different directions towards us. They formed a line from the truck out front, up the walkway, into the building and up the stairs. There were so many who came to help that boxes and furniture were being handed from one to the next, all the way inside. I was overwhelmed by this welcoming support of the community. It felt like coming home.
This is so wonderful! I'd love to live in a place like womontown!!!
I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t know about Womontown until today after living in KC most of my life. What an amazing experience and privilege to say you were part of that. I wish this documentary was longer, left lots of questions. But I will say all of you were really brave to live there & create a community when it was not as welcoming. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Is there a story behind the spelling of Womontown?
Nice
I lived on the 2900 block of Campbell for a year around 2016 and it's STILL a bunch of older lesbians there to this day. The whole area is a gayborhood still.
That’s so cool that they were able to create this. Wish I knew of present places like this to move my family to.
I'm a current resident of Longfellow, and I'm so happy to learn more about this part of its history!
What a wonderful, powerful story of HERSTORY!
Sad that I missed it, it must have been a beautiful neighborhood!!!
I have met some of these women over the years and I never knew about them having been residents of Woman Town. Amazing story.
Thank you!! They are indeed amazing womyn.
Absolutely love this beautiful work of HeArt! 💗
Amazing endeavor! I am often thinking how wonderful it would be to downsize, buy some land and live communally with like minded people who live separate, but share amenities. Thank you for your inspiration!
Count me in. I've searching lately for something like this. My story briefly entails; living in secret for over half my life, and I only seen one break in the ☁️, after my mother transitioned 7 years ago. Now, I'm middle aged in Tennessee, and miserable...
@@bosslady1188 You sound amazing and I hope you find a community, people to add to your chosen intentionally made family. I wish happiness, love, solidarity, community for you. May your latter ½ of life be more than you could dream of. 🙌💕
@@Aqui.. Thank You, best news ive heard this year.
@@bosslady1188💕💞💕
It was great seeing a photo of Pete from Pete's Pub. I left KC in 1999 and I recognized several people that I saw from the younger photos of people. I also was glad to see the short clip of Jean Green. I'm surprised I never heard of Womontown when I lived down there.
This is so awesome! I wish I'd known about this year's ago.
How wonderful to see this!
Thank you for helping to document and preserve such important history for womyn and for Kansas City!
Is it still in operation 🤔? I need it like right now..
@@bosslady1188 There are still lesbians living there but not as an organized effort. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for showing this video ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Very inspirational! Wonderful
Great show!
Amazing work! Thank you.
Well done!
What an amazing story 💜
Thank you ladies, I take my hat off to you. Wish I was in the USA back then, I would have moved on in.
This is so wonderful Mary Ann and Dreia firewalker. Love always wins.
I want to go to here 💜💜💜💜
thank you, it was the time to act! it's ALWAYS the time to act!
So where is the community now? Is it still active?
There is still some of the community that lives in Womontown, but most live in other areas of Kansas City and around the country.
'Staright people sometimes don't know how to behave' 😅 I love it still true 😂
Why did it end?
19:36 I guess softball is a thing for them
I bet the domestic dusputes over that way were lit 🔥
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
who does their hair?
LOL at the name considering the residents
Why is woman spelt womon?
Women without men. A woman without a man, also sometimes spelt womyn!
I moved here and was instantly mugged and positive for an std.
While they played silly games,they straights got rid of the Creston apartments that time had one of the highest 😅 crime murder. As proof this"community" disappeared in a,few years
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WE in Womontown helped get rid of the Creston. We were NOT Playing. We Knew the Politics.
Smells fishy
"COVID took her" LOL
Time to turn off! enough of the "COVID" BS, please please stop pushing that nonsense, well I hope it helped to fund this doc then🤦
Wow, you hear the death of a woman that's deeply upsetting to her life partner and this is where you're at? Talk about a fucken lost cause of a human. Grow up and do better
@@Aqui.. Very funny! I lived through that nonsense 🌷
@@deoranjed8118 No you didn't.
@@Aqui.. I have over 300 colleague's in a security job mate. We all have family networks. I suppose you know lots of people who passed away right LOL 🤣 don't bother replying kid!
@@deoranjed8118 My mother died of Covid.
i wish this was still a thing, seems like theres so few lesbians in kc now
They're all "trans men" now.
The species-dividing, sexual/gender chaos anarchism-abomination was too much for the world.