Hey everyone it has probably been 2 + years since my last upload. I decided to take a break when my hard drive suddenly broke. There was more than a terabyte of content on there that couldn't be recovered. I've still got some good stuff to release, but I probably won't be uploading like I used to. Thanks for coming back and hope you enjoy this gem :)
I'm OCD, so I backup, backup and backup again in cloud and multiple hard storage devices. (And I don't have anything nearly this valuable!) Thank you for your work.
This film is 'The Important Thing Is Love', from 1971. It's one of the earliest UK documentaries about lesbians. 24:57, 35:39 This is Esme Langley (1919 - 1991), a pioneering lesbian who co-founded the Minorities Research Group in 1963, & the lesbian magazine 'Arena 3' in 1964. Esme was working to support lesbian identity & community at a time when the word 'lesbian' was rarely spoken aloud. Dr Charlotte Wolff (1897 - 1986) is a German-British physician, psychotherapist & sexologist who fled Germany as the nazis rose to power in the late 1930s. The same year as this film she published 'Love Between Women', one of the first studies of lesbianism. She followed this with 'Bisexuality', based on interviews with 150 bisexual men & women, in 1977. When this doc was shown during a UK queer film festival 20 years ago, it was introduced in person by the fabulous Maureen, the woman seated on the left at 12:37, 23:54 etc. Explaining how she came to participate, Maureen said: "Brigid the film's producer, was in the Gateways Club three nights running, trying to find a selection of different types of women. My girlfriend was a model, and I was a trendy Kings Road dolly-girl with a beehive hairdo. Brigid said, would we mind taking part in the program?" At first Maureen, then a secretary in her early twenties, refused; but she changed her mind. "It was anger that did it. I didn't see why we should be hounded, bothered and harassed like we were." Her family had put continual pressure on her to get married and once had her confined to a mental hospital where she was given aversion therapy to put her off women. Ironically, this failed spectacularly as this was where Maureen met her first gf, who was being subjected to similar treatment. The two of them ran away to London together. After appearing in the film, Maureen remembers, "I was sacked from my job the next day. I had a letter from my landlord telling me that he didn't want people like me living there. I'd got married to a gay boy, to keep our parents happy, and his mother saw the program and she was down that motorway like a bat out of hell." But there was a definite upside too: 'I got lots of dates. They'd slip me their phone numbers, and tread on my feet to get attention. All of us on the program became mini-celebrities."
Wow! Priceless footage of 1960s outspoken lesbians. Everything they say is still so current isn't it!? I wonder what teen baby lesbian girls' reaction would be if they see and hear this....I still love black and white cinema images. This is so well filmed. Sisterhood! ✊💜💜💜
9:52 Statistically in that room full of INCREDIBLY STRAIGHT & NOT AT ALL GAY OR BI male taxi drivers pondering the nature of 'those people'...there's at least one of those people, lol. Great video, these lesbians are super-courageous for coming out & being willing to be interviewed so early on in the gay rights movement. Thanks, as always, for sharing such great stuff!
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Hey everyone it has probably been 2 + years since my last upload. I decided to take a break when my hard drive suddenly broke. There was more than a terabyte of content on there that couldn't be recovered. I've still got some good stuff to release, but I probably won't be uploading like I used to. Thanks for coming back and hope you enjoy this gem :)
Thank you for all you do!
😵😰Such a loss!!! We've got to preserve anything we've got before it disappears under the dust again.... Welcome back! xx
I'm OCD, so I backup, backup and backup again in cloud and multiple hard storage devices. (And I don't have anything nearly this valuable!) Thank you for your work.
I'm so sorry to hear that :( thanks for your continued efforts!
I wonder where and how you find these. I love it
”Honey, some new lesbian content just dropped!”
This film is 'The Important Thing Is Love', from 1971. It's one of the earliest UK documentaries about lesbians.
24:57, 35:39 This is Esme Langley (1919 - 1991), a pioneering lesbian who co-founded the Minorities Research Group in 1963, & the lesbian magazine 'Arena 3' in 1964. Esme was working to support lesbian identity & community at a time when the word 'lesbian' was rarely spoken aloud.
Dr Charlotte Wolff (1897 - 1986) is a German-British physician, psychotherapist & sexologist who fled Germany as the nazis rose to power in the late 1930s. The same year as this film she published 'Love Between Women', one of the first studies of lesbianism. She followed this with 'Bisexuality', based on interviews with 150 bisexual men & women, in 1977.
When this doc was shown during a UK queer film festival 20 years ago, it was introduced in person by the fabulous Maureen, the woman seated on the left at 12:37, 23:54 etc. Explaining how she came to participate, Maureen said:
"Brigid the film's producer, was in the Gateways Club three nights running, trying to find a selection of different types of women. My girlfriend was a model, and I was a trendy Kings Road dolly-girl with a beehive hairdo. Brigid said, would we mind taking part in the program?"
At first Maureen, then a secretary in her early twenties, refused; but she changed her mind. "It was anger that did it. I didn't see why we should be hounded, bothered and harassed like we were." Her family had put continual pressure on her to get married and once had her confined to a mental hospital where she was given aversion therapy to put her off women. Ironically, this failed spectacularly as this was where Maureen met her first gf, who was being subjected to similar treatment. The two of them ran away to London together.
After appearing in the film, Maureen remembers, "I was sacked from my job the next day. I had a letter from my landlord telling me that he didn't want people like me living there. I'd got married to a gay boy, to keep our parents happy, and his mother saw the program and she was down that motorway like a bat out of hell."
But there was a definite upside too: 'I got lots of dates. They'd slip me their phone numbers, and tread on my feet to get attention. All of us on the program became mini-celebrities."
Thank you for all these uploads. They are historically significant, fascinating and also fun!
Wow! Priceless footage of 1960s outspoken lesbians. Everything they say is still so current isn't it!? I wonder what teen baby lesbian girls' reaction would be if they see and hear this....I still love black and white cinema images. This is so well filmed. Sisterhood! ✊💜💜💜
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9:52 Statistically in that room full of INCREDIBLY STRAIGHT & NOT AT ALL GAY OR BI male taxi drivers pondering the nature of 'those people'...there's at least one of those people, lol.
Great video, these lesbians are super-courageous for coming out & being willing to be interviewed so early on in the gay rights movement. Thanks, as always, for sharing such great stuff!
Thank you for posting this!
I love this sm
These are fascinating lol the attitude towards gay people was shocking back then wow
There women are so amazing
15:25 I’m normally only into femmes but damn! 😍