1. Session 2 (double feature): No Secret Anymore AND Pride Divide

2. Co-produced, written and directed by JEB (Joan E. Biren)
Today’s first film: No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon
Co-produced, written and directed by JEB (Joan E. Biren)
Co-produced by Dee Mosbacher
Associate producer: Margie Adam
Narrated by Kate Clinton
All are openly lesbian
Premiered February 2003, in San Francisco
Broadcast on both PBS and the Sundance Channel

3. Today’s first film: No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon
Awards include:
Won Audience or Jury awards for Best Documentary at the following gay film festivals:
Provincetown, Sydney (Australia), Connecticut, Philadelphia, Austin, Seattle, Turin (Italy), North Carolina
Outstanding Documentary, American Library Association Notable Video for Adults
Nominated for the 16th annual GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary

4. JEB
Left: Self-portrait taken in Dyke, Virginia, Above: JEB speaking to University of Wisconsin students, 2008

5. Early career (beginning in 1970s), best known as a still photographer
JEB resume summary
Early career (beginning in 1970s), best known as a still photographer
Focus was on portraits, to give visibility to lesbian lives
Two books of her photographs have been published:
Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians (1979)
Making a Way: Lesbians Out Front (1987)
In 1997, George Washington University mounted a retrospective of her work entitled “Queerly Visible: ”, which later toured the nation

6. JEB resume summary
No Secret Anymore (2003) was her 3rd feature-length documentary film
Other works include:
Director: For Love and For Life: The 1987 March on Washington For Lesbian and Gay Rights (1988)
Director, Writer, and Producer: A Simple Matter of Justice (1993)
Documenting the 1993 March on Washington
Short documentaries, including:
Women Organize! (2000)
Removing the Barriers (date unknown), used to train healthcare providers to improve services to lesbian clients
Solidarity, Not Charity (date unknown), focusing on relief efforts in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina
For Love and For Life and Simple Matter of Justice are both available online from Alexander Street Press, via UIUC library

7. Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon

8. Today’s first feature film: No Secret Anymore
Expository documentary
This film “shows Del and Phyllis creating coalitions that took on the prevailing beliefs that lesbians were illegal, immoral, and sick.”– IMDb.com
Let’s watch ...

9. Brief epilogue
Del and Phyllis were the first same-sex couple to be married in San Francisco (February 12, 2004) after Mayor Gavin Newsome ordered the city to issue licenses to gay couples.
Voided August 12, 2004 by California Supreme Court
They were married again on June 16, 2008 when the California Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriages were legal.
Del Martin died August 27, 2008 at age 87.
Complications from an arm bone fracture
SF Mayor Newsome ordered flags at City Hall be flown at half-staff in her honor

10. Bus stop poster in San Francisco, 2005

11. Today’s second feature film: Pride Divide
Co-produced, written, and directed by Paris Poirier
Co-produced by Karen Kiss
Featuring interviews with:
Kate Clinton, Barney Frank, Michael Musto, Camille Paglia, Rose Troche, Michaelangelo Signorile, Martin Duberman, Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon, and more
Premiered June 1997, at San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

12. Today’s second film: Pride Divide
Awards include:
Won Best Documentary award at Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival, 1997
Golden Apple Award from the National Educational Media Network, 1999

13. Paris Poirier Left: Poirier at premiere of Last Call at Maud’s, 1993
Above: Karen Kiss, Phyllis Lyon, and Paris Poirier at 20th Anniversary screening of “Maud’s”, 2013

14. Poirier resume summary
Pride Divide (1997) was her 2nd documentary film
Other works include:
Producer and Director: Last Call at Maud’s (1993)
A history of the longest-running lesbian bar in the USA (1966 – 1989)
Director: Xmas Past (2004)
Short dramatic film
Researcher: Coming Out Under Fire (1994)
Historical account of military policy regarding homosexuals during World War II

15. Today’s second feature film: Pride Divide
Expository documentary
This film “is a humorous and frank examination of … how homosexual men and women have bonded in their fight against global homophobia while engaged in a recurring struggle of male vs. female that mirrors many traditional conflicts inherent to straight relationships.”– DVD cover
Let’s watch ...