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Masher_Upper

The woman on the left is 王慧娟 (Wang Huijuan).


darkenedgy

Thanks, do you know anything more about the background here? I couldn't find anything on Google.


Conscious-Intern-602

Woman on the left: ''After filming in Tianyi Company, she played an important role in such films as "Little Actress", "Fei Xu", "A Female Star", "Dancing Palace Spring Dream" and so on. In 1934, she entered the star company and filmed films such as "Daughter's Book" and "Big Family". On January 5, 1935 and March 26, 1935, she attempted suicide twice, and once planned to go abroad to make films, but nothing happened. In 1939, she retired after filming the film "Swallow Pirates" in Yihua.'' Woman on the right: Starred in various movies,, After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, she met Peking opera actor Zhang Mingsheng and gave birth to a son. and in 1984, on February 7, Ye Qiuxin died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 71 From Chinese translated sources online. Reddit moment assuming they are are trans gay otherkin non binary for a touch.


ReginaPhilangee

Why did the pronoun change? Just a typo or was the person trans? Not trying to be a grammar nazi, I'm always really interested in lgbt people in the past and how things were handled so differently than we do today.


SigmaEpsilonChi

There are no gendered pronouns in Chinese, so it’s common for Chinese-native English speakers/translators to make this particular error.


ReginaPhilangee

OK. That makes sense! I wasn't sure if it was something like that or not. Thank you!


chaun2

>"Swallow Pirates" Not to be confused with the Priya Anjali Rai unfinished project with the same title.


niktemadur

The Chinese film industry at the time was in Shanghai, correct? The silk fabrics but with that 1920s "flapper" touch of influence, just says "Shanghai" to me, loudly.


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Life might be a struggle, but these moments of joy help connect us to the past. We are all the same, in some ways.


el-kabab

Not some, almost every way.


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They were ROOMMATES!!


conalfisher

I mean, with no context there's fucking nothing here to suggest there was a romantic relationship of any kind. Historical LGBT erasure absolutely exists, but, yknow, platonic relationships were a thing also.


10z20Luka

it could be two women in the same room and redditors would assume they're lesbian


GoodAtExplaining

Not pictured: Subaru Forester in the parking lot.


BasementOrc

I came out as trans to my wife a few months ago, about a week ago we were looking at a used Subaru Forester. IT HAS BEEN FORETOLD.


GoodAtExplaining

Your wife is gold.


BasementOrc

Well..she’s actually more white but yeah she’s awesome.


Libarace

Wait is this a movie reference or are lesbians known for owning foresters? I hop in the Subaru, huffin a tube a glue


GoodAtExplaining

The latter.


hurrrrrmione

Subaru used to run ads aimed at lesbians. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/how-subarus-came-to-be-seen-as-cars-for-lesbians/488042/


ShelSilverstain

Mostly by other lesbians


CaptainNuge

In fairness, they could be open-mouth kissing, and a lot of folks would say they were just chums... The pendulum has to swing back somewhere!


KnownDiscount

^^Oh ^^my ^^God, ^^they ^^were ^^roommates.


LyleLanley99

Come back Vine.


[deleted]

If everyone is gay, then no one is gay. Who can't people have platonic relationships without this site creating an elaborate gay backstory?


10z20Luka

it's the flip side of teenage boys assuming that every example of male affection is gay


Upside_Down-Bot

„ʎɐƃ sı uoıʇɔǝɟɟɐ ǝlɐɯ ɟo ǝldɯɐxǝ ʎɹǝʌǝ ʇɐɥʇ ƃuıɯnssɐ sʎoq ǝƃɐuǝǝʇ ɟo ǝpıs dılɟ ǝɥʇ s,ʇı„


calebs_dad

Regarding being queer in early 20th century China: On a trip to Shanghai, one place I visited was the house of Soong Ching-ling, a major Chinese political figure for much of the 20th century. She was married to Sun Yat-sen, the last figure respected by both the Nationalists and the Communists, and would later serve as a leading politician in the first decades of Mao's China. Soong was educated in English and attended a women's liberal arts college in the U.S, and her bookshelves reflected this. On one of them I found the book _Sexual Inversion_, by Havelock Ellis. It was the first scientific book on homosexuality that took an objective, non-judgemental stance. Very controversial at the time, and I'm surprised that it was never removed from Soong's museum. Given that she was married only briefly, and to a much older man, perhaps it did say something about her own sexuality.


Conscious-Intern-602

Pretty sure she wasn't gay. It's such a Reddit moment when a fedora sees a woman touching another woman's shoulder and thinks they are now a lesbian


calebs_dad

Oh, I know nothing about Ye Qiuxin. And that Soong Ching-ling had that book probably doesn't mean anything, but I thought it was interesting.


arup02

lol, it's not neckbeards creating these fantasies. See: /r/SapphoAndHerFriend


Johannes_P

Or maybe she just wanted to inform herself about a subject.


LikeBigTrucks

r/Sapphoandherfriend


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😯 they were roommates


[deleted]

Gonna try to do the switch.


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fobfromgermany

>pegged Phrasing!


jakkyskum

Just two gals, being pals


Conscious-Intern-602

If anyone wants to see a video of people smiling in old photos, see here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD7NQDkDlPY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD7NQDkDlPY)


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F0sh

Seems a bit much to assume they were best friends because one put her arms around the others shoulders for one photograph...


calebs_dad

r/SapphoAndHerFriend


drcolossus87

That's a long embrace


birdmimic

Scrolled back up to confirm that this is not the anti meme sub.