School rumors out and ostracize teachers in this timely classic with Audrey Hepburn & Shirley MacLaine
Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” Happy Pride Month! To celebrate the all-encompassing experiences, identities, and stories that make up our community, this column will be highlighting a different letter under the LGBTQ+ acronym every week throughout June.
To start us off, this week we focus on the “L” as we take a look back at one of the most daring and controversial depictions of lesbianism with 1961’s film adaptation of The Children’s Hour.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.It’s such a cliché to say (and eyes are certainly rolling at this very instant!), but words can be the most powerful weapon.
They have the ability to change minds and transform points of view, for better and for worse. So much of the acceptance and rights we’ve gained throughout the years as a community come directly from how we are publicly perceived and talked about.
But, just as its helped us break out of the closet over the decades, that public perception has also had the power to completely upend and destroy our lives.In 1934, playwright Lillian Hellman wrote a play about two young women at the head of an all-girls school whose lives are turned upside down when a vindictive young student accuses them of being lovers.
