Exploring the Secret Lesbian World of Interwar Paris

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  @LampjePockelé · 2 years ago

  Our local radical queer bar closed recently and this video made me tear up a bit. Our history is vast and beautiful and we will endure like ivy through the cracks

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  @theloverlyladylo9158 · 2 years ago

  My mom was once sent home from elementary school in the 60s because her mom sent her to school with snow pants on under her dress. The freak outs about girls in pants was long lasting and utterly bizarre.

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• KA

  @kamilasledz25 · 2 years ago

  "Huge Good Luck Babe moment for Natalie, im sure" caught me off-guard, i love the Chappel Roanification of the lesbian hivemind

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• CA

  @calebleland8390 · 2 years ago

  I passed this on to my daughter. They recently came out to us as non-binary, and is still figuring out other things about their sexuality (made doubly hard because they're Autistic). I thought this might be of some interest to them. Thank you for videos like these that help and entertain not only the LGBTQIA+ community, but CIS-HET people like myself.

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• MI

  @mintjaan · 2 years ago

  I remember in the 2010s there was this sentiment that you couldn't tell who was queer anymore because in years prior if you saw a woman wearing masc clothes, heavily tattooed with short hair it was assumed she was a lesbian. I don't think it was necessarily the straights coopting queer style but rather clothing becoming more neutral and body mods becoming more normalized. The majority of queer idenitifiers are ment to be able to worn in plain sight and interpret by those who know. In away that often means constantly shifting, if something becomes too well known outside of queer culture  or just becomes too common -- we pick something knew. Recently people were talking about "can non lesbians wear carabiners?" And like sure, it's a functional accessory, it's not a sacred object. Queer culture will persist regardless.

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• PO

  @portablegoose · 2 years ago

  I'm literally 25 seconds in and WOW PRODUCTION VALUE HELLO???!!

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• TI

  @TickTockTimeTraveler · 2 years ago

  truly an eye popping number of monocles featured in this vid!! love it

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• QE

  @qetoun · 2 years ago

  I came for the top hat and monocle...I stayed for the documentary.

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• VA

  @vayianos · 2 years ago

  OH MY GOD THE CINEMATOGRAPHY OF THIS VIDEO HHAH THIS IS SO COOL 😭

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• EL

  @ElicBehexan · 2 years ago

  I went to a woman's university.  I started there in the fall of 1973.  I was told my students and a few employees who had been there stories.  For example, it was sometime shortly before I started that  girls were not allowed of of the dorm if they did not wear a dress.  If roommates in the dorm, one could not wear a nightgown if the other was wearing pajamas.  Girls who had gym classes, had to wear a dress to the gym before they could change into gym clothes and then had to change back after class.  I have ALWAYS been glad I did not have to endure these rules!  I turned 70 last year.  Putting on a pretty dress isn't the worst thing I've ever done, but it sure isn't my favorite thing!

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  @leocoyote6579 · 2 years ago

  in my own way, i actually really identify with “the inverts”. i am a f*ggot and a d*ke, i am transsexual, and i exist entirely outside of the binary while completely understanding that i will still be boxed in. this approach has deeply alleviated my dysphoria and made me happier than ever. <br><br>all of kaz’ videos are absolutely ridiculously incredible, but this one takes the cake. i sobbed from the precious beginning to the pix from the 30s &amp; 40s, it’s making me sad that we don’t have basement speakeasies reserved for all of the d*kes of today, but so beautiful that we had those and have the spaces we have now

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• AS

  @asterology4444 · 2 years ago

  i&apos;m not out and i don&apos;t know if i can ever be out while my parents are alive. but learning about and knowing about queers of yesteryear who couldnt either makes me feel less like a failure for not coming out. thanks so much, kaz.

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