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Talking Forbidden Love:
An Interview with Lynne Fernie
From: In a Queer Country
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Lynne Fernie, co-director with Aerlynn Weisman of the documentary, Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives emphasizes in the interview that the film was intended as a multiple crossover. Forbidden Love uses the energies burgeoning in queer theory to depict the historical lesbian experience in a highly contemporary documentary.Lynne Fernie, co-director with Aerlynn Weisman of the documentary, Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives emphasizes in the interview that the film was intended as a multiple crossover. Forbidden Love uses the energies burgeoning in queer theory to depict the historical lesbian experience in a highly contemporary documentary.
Contributors
Terry Goldie
Lynne Fernie is a Vancouver-born, multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, song lyricist, cultural activist, and day-job worker who has lived in Toronto since the 1970s. In the 1980s, she lived in a scruffy loft on Queen Street West, co-founded the feminist journal, Fireweed, edited the art magazine, Paralleloqramme, and exhibited art in galleries across Canada. In the 1990S, she wrote and co-directed two Genie Award-winning documentary films: Forbidden Love: the Unashamed stories of Lesbian Lives (1993) and Fiction and Other Truths: A Film about fane Rule (1996). With the National Film Board of Canada, she is currently working on a short documentary-with-animation on homophobia for children. Terry Goldie is the author of the memoir queersexlife (Arsenal Pulp Press) and the editor of the anthology In a Queer Country: Gay & Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context (Arsenal Pulp Press). His other books include Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction (Broadview 2003), and Fear and Temptation: The Image of the Indigene in Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Literatures (McGill-Queen's, 1989). He is a professor of English at York University in Toronto, where he teaches Canadian and postcolonial literature with particular interest in gay studies and literary theory. Lynne Fernie is a Vancouver-born, multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, song lyricist, cultural activist, and day-job worker who has lived in Toronto since the 1970s. In the 1980s, she lived in a scruffy loft on Queen Street West, co-founded the feminist journal, Fireweed, edited the art magazine, Paralleloqramme, and exhibited art in galleries across Canada. In the 1990S, she wrote and co-directed two Genie Award-winning documentary films: Forbidden Love: the Unashamed stories of Lesbian Lives (1993) and Fiction and Other Truths: A Film about fane Rule (1996). With the National Film Board of Canada, she is currently working on a short documentary-with-animation on homophobia for children. Terry Goldie is the author of the memoir queersexlife (Arsenal Pulp Press) and the editor of the anthology In a Queer Country: Gay & Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context (Arsenal Pulp Press). His other books include Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction (Broadview 2003), and Fear and Temptation: The Image of the Indigene in Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Literatures (McGill-Queen's, 1989). He is a professor of English at York University in Toronto, where he teaches Canadian and postcolonial literature with particular interest in gay studies and literary theory.
