Exploring the Secret Lesbian World of Interwar Paris

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Note: I’ve been informed that one of my sources, the author of Female Masculinity, goes by Jack Halberstam now! The paper I referenced includes his deadname on it as it was published beforehand. My apologies, I wish I could edit the video itself.

After WW1, a vibrant underground community of Sapphic women found community together in Paris. Come learn with me about the big names, their favorite haunts, and the queer history that led there!

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Sources

Seeing Queerly: The Emergence of Lesbian Visual Codes in Interwar Paris by Lowry Martin II

Women together/women apart : portraits of lesbian Paris by Tirza True Latimer

Looking like a lesbian: The sexual politics of portraiture in Paris between the wars by Tirza True Latimer

“A Woman Dressed like a Man”: Gender Trouble at the Sapphic Cabaret, Paris, 1930–1960 by Tamara Chaplin

The modern woman revisited : Paris between the wars by Whitney Chadwick, Tirza True Latimer

No modernism without lesbians by Diana Souhami

Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion by Eleanor Medhurst

‘Our jolly marin wear’: The queer fashionability of the sailor uniform in interwar France and Britain By Andrew Stephenson

Gender, Sexuality, and the City in the Early Twentieth Century by Birgitte Søland

Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France by Mary Louise Roberts

Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam

Beyond the Myth of Lesbian Montmartre: The Case of Chez Palmyre by Leslie Choquette

Histories of French Sexuality: From the Enlightenment to the Present edited by Nina Kushner, Andrew Israel Ross

The frail social body : pornography, homosexuality, and other fantasies in interwar France by Carolyn J. Dean https://archive.org/details/frailsoci...

Passing Fashions: Reading Female Masculinities in the 1920s by Laura Doan

Who's Afraid of Stephen Gordon?: The Lesbian in the United States Popular Imagination of the 1920s by Sherrie A. Inness

Theorizing Female Inversion: Sexology, Discipline, and Gender at the Fin de Siècle by Heike Bauer

Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun by Jennifer L. Shaw

Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson

Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture by Laura Doan

One is not Born a Woman by Monique Wittig

Banishing the Beast: English Feminism and Sexual Morality 1885-1914 by Lucy Bland