Quiz: Which Actress From Early Hollywood’s Sapphic “Sewing Circle” Are You?

As discussed on this website at length in the past, there was a time in the 1910s – 1950s when a group of Hollywood players were being secretly a little bit gay behind the scenes, creating for themselves an intricate chart of hook-ups and flings and multi-year relationships that historians continue dissecting with great delight to this very day. Actress Alla Nazimova coined the term “Sewing Circle” to describe this cadre of women, and it sure did stick!

But whomst of these actors (and one writer who I had to include because no mention of the Sewing Circle would be complete without her) are you?

Which Actress From Old Hollywood's "Sewing Circle" Are You?























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Riese is the 43-year-old Co-Founder of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker, LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant and aspiring cyber-performance artist who grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York and now lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in nine books, magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! In 2016, she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. She's Jewish and has a cute dog named Carol. Follow her on twitter and instagram.

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28 Comments

  1. Barbara Stanwyck, which is interesting. I’m not quiet about being a lesbian but I’m not vocal either. I usually talk around it but all my colleagues know so it’s not a secret. I know, I’m a walking conundrum for a lot of things. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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