IN HER WORDS: 20TH CENTURY LESBIAN FICTION
Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 6:00 PM
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY | 100 MIN | English | USA
Directed by Lisa Marie Evans and Marianne K. Martin
Produced by Cheryl L. Pletcher

General Admission $10 | Student + Children $8

In 1928, readers fell into The Well of Loneliness — a groundbreaking lesbian novel, albeit a tragic one. By the late 1990s, lesbian fiction had climbed out of the well and into a diverse world of stories and storytellers who were publishing increasingly multifaceted stories (some of them even happy ones). Narrated by LGBTQ+ historian Lillian Faderman and illuminated through interviews with trailblazers like Jewelle Gomez (The Gilda Stories), Dorothy Allison (Bastard Out of Carolina), and Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet), In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction charts a literary journey from post-war lesbian pulp to modern bestsellers. In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction pays loving tribute to this evolution of lesbian and queer fiction, through a lens of broader American history. Bring a book to trade!