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Barbara Hammer traces lesbian history through a playful manipulation of archival film footage, including sex ed films, newsreels, stag flicks, and the popular cinema. Through this process, Hammer pulls away the curtains that hid lesbian imagery in the pre-Stonewall era. "...radical sexual politics in a jester's surprise package of impudent humor and Situationist-style found-footage monkey-shines...a shameless imaginative assertion of Gay Pride throughout the 20th century, one that identifies, invents, and/or smirkingly implies gleeful lesbian sexuality in every cultural nook and cranny" (Dennis   Barbara Hammer---USA---2000---70 mins.