The Important Thing Is Love(1971)
Lesbian women – butch, femme and everything in between – articulately discuss their lives, experiences and struggles with everyday discrimination, busting the myths that homosexuality is a disease and that gay women are doomed to loneliness.
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Lesbian women – butch, femme and everything in between – articulately discuss their lives, experiences and struggles with everyday discrimination, busting the myths that homosexuality is a disease and that gay women are doomed to loneliness.
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