Welcome to trashy divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships.

My name is Stacey and Alicia, you're taking us on a bit of a journey this week.

Oh, that I am. Hello, my trashy friends. Thank you for joining us today for all kinds of marital

misadventure with lesbians in Paris with the Olympics being front and center for the

last few weeks of course taking place in the city of love I thought what a week to do a little

August in Paris here in trashy divorces with the real life version of the L word set throughout the first six decades of the 20th century.

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The main character in our story, Natalie Clifford Barney, the Wild Child from Cincinnati.

She is the most famous and notable lesbian on earth at the time.

Her contributions are significant to literature, to art, to women's

liberation. Natalie was famously gay and didn't really give a flip. She was her own creation,

honest and unflinching about it, just the kind of spirit we like around here. Today is really Trashy Divorces storytelling gold.

I'm going for my medal today.

Because Natalie, Barney, gay, couldn't actually get married.

Gay folks couldn't get married then, but Paris through the decades was pretty welcoming

for a whole set of ladies that make a significant impact with each other

most certainly and on to the greater world too so this episode is sort of a community episode

about the L word in Paris Natalie Clifford Barney also including Juna Barnes, Renee Vivian, Colette, Elizabeth

de Gromont, Romaine Brooks, Dolly Wilde, Radcliffe Hall,

and her partner, Una Toobridge, Janet Flanner,

and her partner, Salita Solano, and Mina Loy,

the only straight lady of the bunch.

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