Jan Corran // Posts published by Jan Corran
When We See Our Lives on Film
A few weeks ago I was Facebook messaging with Shauna MacDonald who co-wrote and stars in the award winning film Tru Love. I was telling her how I resonated so strongly with the story because it was my story twenty years ago. Shauna conveyed that she had heard from dozens of women who felt exactly […]
Nude is Art but Naked Ain’t
Every morning I slowly climb the stairs in my house to the floor that contains eye opening coffee, a gluten free muffin and a wall of framed photographs of nude women. I know you just raised an eyebrow. These are not JUST photos of nudes, but gorgeous nude art that includes, i.e., one by Judy […]
LGBTQ Elders Reach Multi-Million Mark
George and Chuck have been together for nearly forty years. As Chuck said, “We’ve been through it all as gay men in San Francisco.†From meeting each other at the baths to watching dozens of our friends die from AIDS. These lovely men have incredible stories to tell. Now they add to that list the […]
Don’t Miss ‘Breaking Through’ Documentary
In 2001, Karla Drenner became a member of the Georgia state House of Representatives. I looked her up on Wikipedia and one descriptor states, “A lesbian, Drenner was the first openly gay member of the Georgia State Assembly.” Today she is one of four LGBT members, alongside Reps. Simone Bell and Keisha Waites, all Atlanta […]
The Juicy Lesbian Novel from Days Gone By
Gone Are the Days of Flashlight, Sheet Over Head and that Juicy Lesbian Novel. Yes, ladies, we have come a long way from pulp lesbian novels like I Prefer Girls by Jessie Dumont to The Girls in 3-B by Valerie Taylor. Crest Books brought us some of the campiest stories of forbidden love and, if […]
What Watching Lesbian Films Taught Me
Acknowledging ones lesbianism is not like smacking yourself on the head and saying, “gee, I could’ve had a V-8â€. For some of us its that gnawing feeling that you know you just aren’t like the rest of the girls who giggled and pined over the high school quarterback. You pined over the homecoming queen. You […]
Arizona’s Awkward Realization About Gays
In 1947 Gregory Peck starred in the movie Gentleman’s Agreement as Phillip Green. Peck is sent to cover a story about anti-Semitism. To do so, he takes on the persona of a Jewish man to cover this story. He discovers the shocking depth of anti-Semitism. And remember this film debuted just as the world was […]
Do Lesbians Know How to Sing & Dance?
A few years ago I got hooked on the web series Girl Trash. It was geared to a young “Lip Service†kind of audience who had fallen in love with the dynamic and love struck sterile couple called Spashley on South of Nowhere. I was curious to see what Angela Robinson would do with her just released […]
In 2014, I Will Watch Every Lesbian Film!
Every year I make a set of New Year’s resolutions. And here it is December 2013 and as far as I can tell, I did not get taller or thinner. I did not go on an Olivia cruise, read the Diary of Miss Anne Lister, religiously peruse every Epochalips article nor did I watch all of the […]
Lesbian Sex and Relationships in Film
What was the Casting Director Thinking? I am someone who has been in love with movies of all kinds since the moment I saw Anne Bancroft straddle the bar stool and finger her earring in The Graduate. That same year (1967) the extraordinary film The Fox starring Anne Heywood, Sandy Dennis and Keir Dullea was […]
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