









This 1992 Canadian documentary wraps genuine oral histories of mid-century lesbian lives in the campy aesthetic of pulp paperbacks: nine women dramatize their own coming-out stories from the 1940s-60s, creating something tender beneath the sleaze. Spectacle screens it on rare 16mm.
LGBTQ+ history documentary
indie cinema experience
16mm film screening
queer oral histories
Tips
💎"one of the smaller jewels of the city" (Spectacle regular)
🍺BYOB — bring a beer, not a attitude
🎞️rare chance to see it on 16mm
Wednesday, June 17, 7:30 PM
$10
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories Of Lesbian Lives
June 17 at 7:30pm
Williamsburg










This 1992 Canadian documentary wraps genuine oral histories of mid-century lesbian lives in the campy aesthetic of pulp paperbacks: nine women dramatize their own coming-out stories from the 1940s-60s, creating something tender beneath the sleaze. Spectacle screens it on rare 16mm.
LGBTQ+ history documentary
indie cinema experience
16mm film screening
queer oral histories
Tips
💎"one of the smaller jewels of the city" (Spectacle regular)
🍺BYOB — bring a beer, not a attitude
🎞️rare chance to see it on 16mm
Wednesday, June 17, 7:30 PM
$10
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