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16 Noteworthy Documentaries Celebrating LGBTQ+ Women
From 1920s lesbians appreciating art in Paris to a retired Illinois couple coming out after six decades together.
This creative milieu of renowned lesbian and bisexual modernists, including the likes of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Sylvia Beach, is placed under a distinctly feminist lens as Schiller’s poetic documentary elucidates their newfound freedom south of the Seine. This story begins in 2012 with the comic’sbreast-cancer diagnosis, a revelation she received just before stepping onto the stage at L.A. comedy club Largo, where she went on to deliver a viral set that skyrocketed her career.Alongside this journey, the comedian attempts to become pregnant with her fiancée, Stephanie Allynne, while grieving her late mother. Harri Shanahan and Sian Williams’s boisterous documentary stitches together archival footage, home video, interviews, and imaginatively realized animations into a patchwork of admiration for this little-known lesbian community and its radical work in politics, music, art, and sex.
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