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From Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast by Heather Rose Jones (heatherosejones), Episode 197 - "Hey Hollywood! Historic Couples who would Make Great Happy Movies", 2021-03-20 ( audio 0:40:55 | transcript)

Context: talking about a dearth of happy-ending WLW historical romance movies:

For this episode, I've chosen female couples who met, loved, and established a happy life together. I make no judgements about whether that life included a sexual relationship as long as there was a loving partnership. For some pairs, it was indeed an "ever after" not parting until death. For others, personalities and circumstances intervened and the happiness turned out to be only "for now." But any of them could be given a non-tragic, non-depressing treatment on the silver screen. And these are just the women who also did something interesting enough to end up in historic records. Quiet happy couples don't attract much notice, but quiet happy movies could be made about them nonetheless.

And much farther down, the bit I wanted to share for Lesbian Visibility Day:

I did an entire episode on 19th century American actress Charlotte Cushman and her rather tangled love life. Despite the drama and occasional infidelities, I don't think it can be argued that Cushman had anything other than a happy and positive life. She was a blazing star on the stage, the center of a vibrant and creative artistic circle of queer women, and finished her life in a series of triumphal performance tours even while suffering from breast cancer, resting at last with her life partner, sculptor Emma Stebbins at her side. I've said it before and I'll say it again: it is a crime and an embarrassment that we don't have an entire extended mini-series about Cushman and her circle. This is a community packed full of female couples with happy endings. Let's look at a couple more of the stories that can be told here.