By: Liza

Meanwhile, As Jungerman makes films about her “struggles to find herself in a world where gender and sexuality have left her “old fashioned lesbianism” behind” there is a new crop of films made by and about women of her generation- or maybe a bit older – about the kind of “old fashioned lesbian’ that Jungerman can’t seem to find. She must be looking in all the wrong places, because we’re still here, and we’re still making films.

I suggest “Left On Pearl” a wonderful film about a 1971 women’s takeover of a Harvard Building, an action that not only crated Boston’s longest running women’s center but the action produced dozens of Lesbians, who realized, in the intense company of their sisters, that they really preferred to be dykes.

Then there’s Lesbiana-A Parallel Revolution, made by Myriam Fougere, a gorgeous documentary about the Lesbians living on the land in the seventies and eighties in the US and Canada. This is now circulating in film festivals worldwide.

“The Oldest Lesbian In The World” about Bobby Staff, a butch Lesbian born in 1913.

Still in production: Leading Ladies; The Life And Times of It’s All Right To Be Woman Theater” about the NYC women’s theater troupe, and “A Moment in Her Story” also about Boston Lesbian Feminists in the 1970’s.

I hope to see reviews of these soon. Not only are these Lesbian History, but they are really good films. Check them out.