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Lesbian bars predate feminist spaces such as bookstores [1] and coffeehouses, [2] [3] [4] and contemporary LGBT services such as community centers and health care centers. While few lesbian-specific bars exist today, lesbian bars have long been sites of refuge, validation, community, and resistance for women whose sexual orientations are considered "deviant" or non-normative. [5]
The Watermelon Woman is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, and edited by Cheryl Dunye.The first feature film directed by a black lesbian, [3] [4] it stars Dunye as Cheryl, a young black lesbian working a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about Fae Richards, a black actress from the 1930s known for playing the stereotypical "mammy" roles relegated ...
The Black Lesbian and Gay Centre (BLGC) was a community centre in London that ran from 1985 to 2000. [1] The centre was founded by members of the Gay Black Group in response to "the overwhelming whiteness of the 'mainstream' LGBTQ+ scene, racism from within and outside of the scene, and the difficulties of coming out to families, who generally perceived homosexuality as a 'white' issue."
With unique experiences and often very different struggles, black lesbians have developed an identity that is more than the sum of its parts – black, lesbian, and woman. [74] Some individuals may rank their identities separately, seeing themselves as black first, woman second, lesbian third, or some other permutation of the three; others see ...
"the 1980’s most popular club for New Jersey lesbians, and possibly the oldest lesbian venue of its kind on the East Coast" [78] "New Jersey’s largest and most happening lesbian club and hotel" [79] Formerly Owl and Pussycat [80] The Lexington Club: Mission District, San Francisco, California United States 1997 2015 [81] [82] Magnolia ...
The Salsa Soul Sisters, today known as the African Ancestral Lesbians United for Societal Change, is the oldest black lesbian organization in the United States. [1] Operating from 1974 to 1993, the Salsa Soul Sisters identified as lesbians, womanists and women of color, based in New York City [2] Arguments within the Salsa Soul Sisters resulted in the disbanding of the Salsa Soul Sisters into ...
Moore, Mignon R. "Black and Gay in L.A.: The Relationships Black Lesbians and Gay Men Have to Their Racial and Religious Communities" (Chapter 7). In: Hunt, Darnell and Ana-Christina Ramon (editors). Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities. NYU Press, April 19, 2010. ISBN 0814773060, 9780814773062.
The Watermelon Woman (1996) is a feature film directed and written by Cheryl Dunye that explores the history of black lesbians in film. Dunye's inspiration came from her frustration with the lack of information about black actresses in early films, which led her to create a fictional character named Fae Richards and construct an archive for her.