Date: 2010-05-12 12:02 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] melannen
So I am vaguely aware that there was an active literary/bohemian community of openly lesbian and/or trans women in Paris in the late 19th/early 20th century. And I know some of the women involved in it were English women who went to Paris because of the community. But I don't really know any context for it, besides what I've gotten by looking up the biographies of individual women (such as Colette, perhaps the most well-known of them these days). And it seems from (various dubious web sources anyway), that women in that community didn't really distinguish between trans and lesbian, using (and perhaps inspiring) the sociologists' idea of female "inversion" as necessarily having elements of both.

Does anybody have any more about that Paris circle & its relationships with English literary cirles and English queer communities?

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