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Dir: Joyce Warshow, USA, 2002, Beta SP, 52 mins No rating required | |||
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This documentary follows the life of Joan Nestle, a Bronx-born Jewish 62
year old femme lesbian who came out in the working class bars of Greenwich
Village in the late 1950s. Co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in
NYC and a truly inspirational figure, she played an invaluable role in
reclaiming the history of lesbian lives in the 50s and 60s. In so doing,
she gave dignity back to the butch-femme couples whose gender roles had
been so comprehensively dismissed by 1970s lesbian feminists.
Preceded by …
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