Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office still reigned as Hollywood's moral arbiter, a fearless film producer optioned Radclyffe Hall's notorious bestseller, The Well of Loneliness. For weeks, his writers wrestled with the story, but finally admitted defeat. "What's the trouble?" demanded the producer. "The heroine's a Lesbian," stammered the writers. "So change it," roared the producer. "Make her an American...
...What a remarkable place Cambridge is," says Mrs. Chesterton Undergrowth, the wife of a prominent Harvard dean. That she says it in bed to the lesbian heroine of The Section Man indicates the tone and intention of the novel. The hero is the homosexual husband of the heroine, and three pages after Mrs. Undergrowth's seduction, he finds himself in bed with Mr. Undergrowth. That should indicate that the intention is carried...
Author Mahyére, daughter of a strict Geneva pastor, in most respects evidently modeled her heroine after herself. Sylvie is a Parisian schoolgirl, a Lesbian who tries to make it on pills and "oceans of alcohol." She has been turned out of two schools, the second time from a convent school for writing a love letter to a teacher. Sylvie has long since decided that she ought to be dead, but death frightens her. Yet to live, "one has to choose between three houses where one is shut up; the asylum, the convent and the brothel." In her view...
...perverse and lifelong fascination with performing or watching micturition. When he married at the age of 32, he made his wife submit to the following pact: separate lodgings, no children, no mutual economic support, lengthy separations, no vows of lifelong fidelity. When his wife embarked on a series of Lesbian affairs, H. E. imperturbably gave his blessing and made some "dear friendships" with other women. These friendships never progressed beyond kisses and preliminary love play, because H. E. was sexually impotent. After a quarter-century of tormented marriage, his wife died, and past the age of 60, H. E. became...