Old Lesbians | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

For the last quarter century, Houston native Arden Eversmeyer journeyed across the country to record hundreds of oral "h | dG1fdU9Id015eFlSS0E

Transcript

00:00 2, 4, 6, 8, how do you know your grandma straight?

00:06 There was no collection of work about lesbians,

00:10 and old lesbians in particular.

00:12 What have they done with their lives?

00:14 So what I would like to hear from you first

00:17 is about your beginnings.

00:20 I just had a huge crush on the Statue of Liberty.

00:24 OK, now comes the lesbian part of it.

00:28 OK.

00:29 Some of the things that I was diagnosed with

00:32 was sexual deviance, not grasping and fulfilling

00:38 the female role, and for being angry.

00:44 It's like feeling you're in the dark.

00:47 And the first most terrifying point

00:48 was communicating this with her.

00:52 Our lives were like activism, just by being out and being

00:56 who we are.

00:58 I was one of the first lesbians to have donor insemination.

01:02 I sat down, I thought, I have got to write,

01:05 and I launched blindly into a novel.

01:08 We can't afford to lose our history, all of it,

01:13 all of it, without bias.

01:17 The truth has to be told, and the truth has to go forward.

01:22 So carry on, y'all.

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