It’s my untested hypothesis that one of the reasons the Dinah is so debauched is that it is quite difficult to get pregnant when sleeping with other women, and there’s also a misperception among many lesbians that you’re not at risk of STDs. Syphilis, by the way, isn’t something most lesbians think about much as they rack up Dinah conquests (“Never settle for a girl from day one,” one girl advised me, “the day two girls are always better”). You can’t get syphilis from a swimming pool but, for a moment, I wonder. There are fake eyelashes floating in the water, and I don’t want to imagine what sort of bodily fluids. Then again, so might getting in the pool. Several opt for stickers or tape over their nipples instead of bikini tops, and I can’t help but think they will later regret the decision (think: ripping off a Band-aid). Maybe all the clothes got destroyed during the gaypocalypse, because nobody’s wearing much. It’s also about scantily clad celebration. The Dinah isn’t about separatism it’s about celebration. Despite the stereotype of the man-hating dyke, most lesbians really like men (we need them around to ensure we don’t get too distracted). No one at the Dinah wishes a plague on all men. But I feel like that comes more from the queerness rather than the femaleness. There’s a feeling of comfortable camaraderie a sense of suddenly being a first-class citizen. I can’t lie, it’s nice being in a predominantly female space for a few days. The feeling of permissiveness is compounded by the desert scenery: it looks like there has been some sort of gaypocalypse, and all the straight men and women have died out. Most of the girls were too drunk to realize or care. Debbie, a Dinah veteran who has attended every event since 1991, recalls that half the water splashed out of the pool. One year, there was a minor earthquake in Palm Springs. “I get flashed at a lot.” Random girls pulling you into their hotel rooms are also pretty standard. “Flashing is normal,” Charlotte, 24, told me. There’s a sense of liberation and a tacit understanding that what happens in Dinah stays in Dinah (unless it ends up on Facebook). Butch, femme, old, young, gold stars, bi, black, white, hardcore, normcore – the Dinah attracts a diverse group. No one is here for the DJs, comedians or YouTube stars performing either. As we continue to make history, look back on these 20 same-sex kisses that defined the entertainment industry.A promotional video shows highlights from last year’s Dinah festival Guardian The LGBTQ+ community in the media has come a long way, but there’s still a long way to go for queer romances to be shown as often as their heterosexual counterparts. While the kiss wasn’t romantic-the moment was between young handsome soldier John Powell and his dying friend David Armstrong-it was still a major moment in the LGBTQ+ community as the first kiss between two men on screen.įast forward to 2020, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find a network that doesn’t have a show with a romantic relationship between two characters of the same sex. The first same-sex kiss was in the 1927 silent film, Wings, an Oscar-winning romance war movie, which showed two male soldiers kissing in the trenches of World War I.
Compared to heterosexual kisses in the media, of which there have been hundreds of thousands, same-sex relationships on screen have been historically underrepresented, so we took it upon ourselves to highlight 20 same-sex kisses that have changed TV and movie history for the better. Since then, there have been dozens of gay kisses in TV shows and movies, but there needs to be more.
It’s been more than 90 years since the first same-sex kiss was seen on screen.