But I think it was also where many white people felt that they could go, to experiment with homosexuality, and to experiment with other things as well. I think that Harlem was fairly open to black homosexuality, though not entirely without ambivalence.
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And I found those to be fairly rampant in areas such as Harlem and Greenwich Village, and expatriate Paris particularly. What I mean by lesbianism, I should say, first of all, is not romantic friendships such as I talk about in parts of Surpassing the Love of Men (1981), but actually of sexual relations between women. So, with all of this as a backdrop, then, certain places emerged in the United States where lesbianism was more acceptable than it had been ever before, and perhaps ever since, until the 1970s, the decades that followed that. That meant that they were able to support themselves, and they had some kind of vestiges of independence, and I think that through feminism, too, more women accepted themselves as sexual creatures for the first time in modern history. And then in the ‘20s also there was the effect of feminism. It was a time of experimentation in various areas, in art, in literature, in music, and I think also for many women in sexuality as well. I think that there was a huge break in the 1920s with what had preceded, and part of that break of course was due to World War I and the disintegration of old cultural values, the divorce from Victorianism that many people claimed. And I think it could happen in the 1920s for several reasons. What I mean by that is not simply lesbians existing in friendship circles but rather lesbians trying to claim some public space for themselves, and it wasn’t yet very widespread but there were certainly pockets of this kind of thing as I’ve suggested. Lillian Faderman: I think that the 1920s really saw something of the proliferation of the lesbian subculture throughout the United States. certain places emerged in the United States where lesbianism was more acceptable than it had been ever before. Ore women accepted themselves as sexual creatures for the first time in modern history.
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This lecture was given Jas part of a Culture Series from 1989-1990, presented at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles.
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The New York Times names two of her book, Surpassing the Love of Men and Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, on its “Notable Books of the Year” list. Among her many honors are six Lambda Literary Awards, two American Library Association Awards, and several lifetime achievement awards for scholarship, including Yale University’s James Brudner Award, the Monette/Horwitz Award, the Publishing Triangle Award, the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives Culture Hero Award and the American Association of University Women’s Distinguished Senior Scholar Award. Her work has been translated into numerous languages, including German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Turkish, Czech, and Slovenian. Lillian Faderman is an internationally known scholar of lesbian history and literature, as well as ethnic history and literature.