It’s hard to identify the moment when cinema went from portraying lesbianism in a purely subtextual manner to a more overt one, however the German Mädchen in Uniform is widely considered the earliest example of a lesbian-themed motion picture. Released in 1931, the film was as revolutionary in its subject as it was in its production. The story of a schoolgirl who falls in love with a teacher, it was one of the first movies to be written, and largely directed, by women. While the end…
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