Storyline

This documentary about lesbians in Canada alternates between fiction and non-fiction. Along with interviews of real women who discuss coming to terms with their sexuality during the '40s, '50s and '60s, there are dramatized scenes based on the "Beebo Brinker Chronicles," a series of hard-boiled lesbian pulp novels by Ann Bannon published during the '50s. Meanwhile, the interviewed women talk about Vancouver and Toronto's gay scenes of the time, which were their own pulp-worthy underworlds.

Plot Keywords

writer, lesbian, canadian, gay man, girlfriend, older woman, amusing, inspiring, bar, train station, apartment, lesbianism, code, racial tension, abusive relationship, underground scene, transformation, adventure, forbidden love, 1960s

Short Review

Their oral recollections are informative, absorbing, funny and insightful and open the curtain for a closer look at hidden aspects of lesbian cultural history.

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