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This film, which won Best Picture at the 2023 Academy Awards, features a lesbian character who literally searches the multiverse to find her mother's approval. Coincidentally, it also features hot dog fingers.
What is Everything Everywhere All At Once?
Tracy Chapman: "City lights lay out before us / and your arms felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder / and I had a feeling that I belonged / I had a feeling I could be someone"
What is Fast Car?
In 1982, Alice Walker became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for this novel.
What is the Color Purple?
The orange-pink lesbian flag was created by blogger Emily Gwen in 2018 and was first posted to this social media site.
What is tumblr?
In January of 1996, the first televised lesbian wedding, between the characters of Carol and Susan, aired on this sitcom.
What is Friends?
Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, and RuPaul, who pronounces early on in the film "I myself was once a gay," star in this 1999 pastel-colored film about conversion therapy.
What is But I'm A Cheerleader?
Renee Rapp: "Get her number, get her name / Get a good thing while you can / Kiss a blonde , kiss a friend / Can a gay girl get an Amen?"
What is Not My Fault?
This author of well-known essays such as "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" and "The Uses of Anger" was a self-described "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet."
Who is Audre Lorde?
The original definition of the word "lesbian" means "from the island of Lesbos," and it became associated with non-men who love non-men because of this ancient poet, who was from there.
Who is Sappho?
Starring Hailee Steinfeld as the titular mid nineteenth century poet, this historical series depicts the relationship between the poet and her sister-in-law, Sue Gilbert.
What is Dickinson?
Patricia Highsmith's 1952 book The Price of Salt, which is widely considered the first lesbian novel with a happy ending, was adapted into a 2015 film called this, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.
What is Carol?
Lesley Gore: "Nobody knows where my Johnny has gone / Judy left the same time / Why was he holding her hand / When he's supposed to be mine?"
What is It's My Party?
Writing around the same time as Virginia Woolf, this author published The Well of Loneliness in 1928, which was subjected to obscenity trials for the following two decades despite not having sexually explicit themes, due to its lesbian romance plot.
Who is Radclyffe Hall?
When lesbians move in together after the second date, they call up this trucking company to help them out.
What is U-Haul?
What is the Puppy Episode?
An end card to Cheryl Dunye's 1996 film reveals:
"Sometimes you have to create your own history. [This titular character] is fiction."
What is the Watermelon Woman?
Indigo Girls: "I went to the doctor / I went to the mountains / I looked to the children / I drank from the fountains / There's more than one answer to these questions / Pointing me in a crooked line"
What is Closer to Fine?
In a 1985 comic strip titled "The Rule," two characters devise a set of rules that all films they watch must meet: the movie has to have at least two women in it, who talk to each other, about something other than a man. This rule, though written largely as a joke by the cartoonist, became a tool used in mainstream film criticism in the early twentieth century, known by this name.
What is the Bechdel Test?
In 1980, this scholar wrote the essay "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" to encourage heterosexual feminists to think about heterosexuality as a political institution of enforcement.
Who is Adrienne Rich?
This 2022 television series, which bears the same name as a 1992 film directed by Penny Marshall but features explicitly queer themes and characters unlike the original film, focuses on a group of WWII women's baseball players.
What is A League of Their Own?
The 2019 film Portrait of a Lady on Fire, directed by this lesbian filmmaker, takes place in late eighteenth century France and features an aristocrat and a painter who has been commissioned to paint her portrait.
Who is Celine Sciamma?
Joan Jett: "I've never been afraid of any deviation / And I don't really care if you think I'm strange / I ain't gonna change"
What is Bad Reputation?
Leslie Feinberg's semi-autobiographical novel by this name, which details the life story of protagonist Jess Goldberg across several decades in mid twentieth century New York City, is considered a seminal work in lesbian, transgender, gender non-conforming, and Marxist activist spaces.
What is Stone Butch Blues?
This flower has been associated with lesbianism since at least the end of the nineteenth century, and it was especially popularized among the lesbian community in Paris in 1926 when the play The Captive premiered, which featured two women exchanging these flowers as a symbol of their love.
What are violets?
Cancelled after only one season, this Netflix original from 2018 features a coming-out-storyline and a budding relationship between Kate Messner, played by Peyton Kennedy, and Emmaline Addario, played by Sydney Sweeney.
What is Everything Sucks!