Structured through interviews, archival footage, and a stylized fictional narrative based on the pulp novels of the 1950s, Forbidden Love was the first overtly lesbian film made at the National Film Board and remains an empowering window into this country's herstory.
Produced by Studio D, the women's studio at the National Film Board of Canada, Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman's 1992 documentary Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives deep dives into the extraordinary history of Canadian queer women in the 1950s and 1960s.
