Spain has become the world's fourth country to allow gay couples the right to marry, despite strong opposition from the Catholic church. The bill, which passed through congress after being rejected by the upper house has become law, giving gay and lesbian couples the same rights to marry, adopt and divorce as heterosexuals. The legislation is among a host of social reforms being pushed through parliament by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's socialist PSOE government. Do you agree with the revolution?
I have recently moved to Barcelona and am amazed at the difference that this new legislation has made in the public domain! We are everywhere, holding hands in the cinema queue, sitting on each others laps on the Metro, dancing the Tango with each other in the park. I was gazing out of the window on a long train journey and witnessed two women kissing passionately on the platform just as the train drew up, am I dreaming!! No… fabulous! Viva Espania!
Hi Jacqueline! Happy New Year! I take it that you agree with the revolution then? I was brave enough to read an 'out and proud' lesbian magazine on a flight to Barcelona the other day, yes, with a person either side of me! It felt quite different, being ordinary in a way, an ordinary lesbian, at last! I drew attention to myself mainly because I was laughing at the brilliantly funny contents...if someone were to look over my shoulder they would have been quite shocked I think, or is our lesbian culture ordinary too?
Hello Jodie. Happy new year to you too. Well I don't think that our lesbian culture will become ordinary for a long time. The lesbian sequence of Claire Fisher (Lauren Ambrose) in the TV series Six Feet Under, I thought was handled very well. I think the lesbian scenes were very realistic and deeply touching, if you know what I mean! So I am a huge fan of Six Feet Under now. Does anyone agree with me?
Jacqueline, here are my comments in the 'Lesbian Sex scenes in film' here in the LKS Forum that you have missed... "Lesbian sex scenes may be included in film, but it is rare that love exists or survives the story, as thankfully is the case in Bound, directed by the Wachowski brothers. Rebecca Alvin writes in Lesbian Kama Sutra Sapphosophy article Lesbianism in Popular Cinema/Film that '...mainstream films avoid true love for its female homosexuals like the plague, they explore lesbian sex only when it is motivated by experimentation. The lesbian can experience her sexuality only as a fleeting, experimental affair, as in Emmanuelle or Personal Best, or as evidence of mental instability, as in Rachel...' Quite true! I am disappointed recently by the experimental lesbian sex in Six Feet Under, when Clare Fisher is categorically not allowed to have any lesbian sex at all, what a missed opportunity, does anyone one else feel disappointed or am I one of those lesbians who is never satisfied that the role of a lesbian is shown in film at all...?" Perhaps you will change your mind about being a Fan of Six Feet Under for it's lesbian sex scenes, now that you ahve read this comment.