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From the late nineteenth
century until World War II,
Paris was a center of sexual freedom and
same-sex sexual cultures. Lesbian American and European expatriates and
France's own lesbian writers and artists created a Bohemian social, sexual,
and creative milieu that makes this time and place unique in the history of
lesbian culture. Click here
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Natalie Clifford Barney |
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Berenice Abbott
(1898-1991), an accomplished American photographer famous for her New
York cityscapes, made memorable images of gay men and lesbians in Paris
in the 1920s. |
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 Margaret Anderson
(1886-1973) is best known as the editor of The Little Review in
which she published some of the most important writers of the early
twentieth century. Following a conviction for obscenity in the United
States, Anderson spent much of the 1920s in Paris. |
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Djuna Barnes
(1892-1982) was a writer who sought new forms of lesbian
self-representation in her novels. Her Ladies Almanac
playfully satirizes the lesbian culture she experienced while living in
Paris during the 1920s. |
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Natalie Clifford
Barney (1876-1972), an American-born poet, memoirist, and
epigrammatist, moved to Paris permanently in 1920. She
established an influential literary salon that lasted more than fifty
years, and documented her encounters with gay and lesbian writers she
met there in two well-regarded memoirs. |
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Sylvia Beach
(1887-1962) was an American-born editor who founded Shakespeare and
Company, a Parisian bookshop that had a significant impact on modern
literature. |
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 Nadia Boulanger
(1887-1979) may have been the greatest teacher of musical
composition in the twentieth century. Ruth Anderson, Ned Rorem, and
Aaron Copland were among the hundreds of students who came to her tiny
Paris studio. |
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Romaine Brooks
(1874-1970) was an American expatriate artist whose life-sized female
nudes and portraits of cross-dressed women made her lesbian identity
and desire visible to the world. |
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Claude Cahun
(1894-1954), a French photographer, photo collagist, writer, and
translator, photographed several noted lesbian expatriates in Paris. |
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 Colette
(1873-1954) is one of France's most beloved writers. Her work includes
a frank study of sexuality entitled The Pure and the Impure,
which addresses a broad range of sexual inclinations. |
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 Janet Flanner
(1892-1978) was an American-born novelist, translator, and journalist
best known for her fortnightly "Letter from Paris," which she wrote for
the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975. |
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