Velvet-Club Connecting Lesbians & Bi-women around the World

No Modernism Without Lesbians with Diana Souhami Publication day standing book launch celebration. Free to attend. The extraordinary story of a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place Paris between the wars how the lesbian community fostered the shock of the new. The book: In the summer of 1945, just after the Nazi occupation, Truman Capote visited Romaine Brooks's abandoned studio in Paris. The portraits there, large and imposing, were of women: Ida Rubinstein, Una Troubridge, Gluck, Elisabeth de Gramont, Renata Borgatti, Bryher. Romaine's lover Natalie Barney said that Paris had been 'the Sapphic Centre of the Western World', and these women defined it. Capote himself called them 'the all-time ultimate gallery of famous dykes'. This book is about that gallery and celebrates the central role they played in the cultural revolution that was Modernism.

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