California state Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner was interviewed for the 2012 documentary Citizen Change (Frameline 36). The narrative took and unexpected, intriguing, and poignant turn as she recounts the unraveling of a family secret, ...See moreCalifornia state Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner was interviewed for the 2012 documentary Citizen Change (Frameline 36). The narrative took and unexpected, intriguing, and poignant turn as she recounts the unraveling of a family secret, involving a disowned great-aunt (also a renowned tennis champion and coach in the 1940's), a young daughter just coming out, and, ardently, Barbara Stanwyck. Skinner's oral narrative weaves family love, intolerance, hidden lesbian history, and the final closing of a family circle in so compelling a manner that it could not be left on the cutting-room floor. Written by
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