I
have never heard of the authoress Tereska Torres before today. There
was a brief article about her new book, apparently based on her old book
called 'Women in Uniform'. It's not the book title that attracted my
attention as I know nothing at all about her or her work. It's what she
said to the media:
"When
browsing on the web, I learned that I am the literary queen of
lesbians, the first person to write the first pulp erotic-lesbian
novels. I hate it, just hate it!"
The
now 89 year old Ms Torres has re-written her 'Women in Uniform', an
autobiographic novel about her experience between skirts and arms in
the 2nd World War, when she was a member of the French Liberation force
in London. The story centres on 5 enlisted young women and their
vicissitudes and loves.
When
that earlier version first published in 1950, it caused enormous storm
and later became a best seller. Now she has re-published it after
making some changes, "More serious, more complete, and better finished."
She punctuated.
She
expressed her surprise why her book was labelled lesbian, as "only '1
and a half' could be said as lesbians, the rest, the '3 and half',
preferred machine guns."
Now
that's the part that intrigues me most: I thought one is either a
lesbian or is not, how can one be half lesbian? Is it the same or
different from one that's bisexual?
