Old Lesbians

Nov 11, 2023

0h 29m

★ 7.0

Overview

For the last quarter century, Houston native Arden Eversmeyer journeyed across the country to record hundreds of oral "herstories" with a mostly invisible population that is rapidly disappearing. Old Lesbians honors Arden's legacy by animating the resilient, joyful voices she preserved in the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project, from first crush to first love, from the closet to coming out, and finally from loss to connection.

Genres

Documentary

Animation

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Cast

Self

Gaye Adegbalola

Self

Arden Eversmeyer

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Edie Daly

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Barb Kucharczyk

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Lillian Faderman

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Ann Bannon

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