Channel 4’s Where Have All The Lesbians Gone?: viewers react to the inclusive and incredibly nostalgic documentary

Where Have All The Lesbians Gone

Credit: Channel 4

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Channel 4’s Where Have All The Lesbians Gone?: viewers react to the inclusive and incredibly nostalgic documentary

By Morgan Cormack

3 years ago

1 min read

Where Have All The Lesbians Gone? is Channel 4’s new documentary uncovering the pivotal pop culture moments and deeper politics of being a lesbian in 2022. Here’s what viewers thought of the enlightening show and why you need to watch it.

If you’re an avid documentary watcher – like us – you’ll lap up any informative watch with the speed of an excited child. 

There’s just something about nestling down to an hour-long docufilm filled with information and personal anecdotes that leaves us feeling more educated on a wealth of different topics. Recently, we’ve lapped up documentaries on everything from colourism to British legal scandals and sexual misconduct allegations against well-known British music figures.

Now, though, Channel 4 is providing us with another documentary, and this time around, it’s intimate, funny and nostalgic – aka everything we love in a show.

Where Have All The Lesbians Gone? aired last night (28 April) on Channel 4 and follows lesbian director Brigid McFall and lesbian photographer Vic Lentaigne as they “create a series of intimate revealing portraits of what it means to be lesbian in 2022,” according to the show’s synopsis. 

Where Have All The Lesbians Gone

Credit: Channel 4

Upon airing, viewers were quick to express their praise over the documentary. As well as being enlightening, it’s been hailed as “incredibly powerful” and “important”, not least because of the diverse viewpoints included:

The documentary also comes during a time when TV fans are loving the positive representation from other shows like Netflix’s Heartstopper:

Ultimately, though, Where Have All The Lesbians Gone? is an important documentary that viewers are loving:

Premiering in the middle of Lesbian Visibility Week, the documentary includes a variety of different experiences and discusses lesbian social history in the most informative – and hilarious – of ways.

Remember how important that Brookside same-sex kiss was back in 1994? Or how The Killing Of Sister George was so vital for its time in 1968? As well as these lighter television moments, the documentary examines what it means to be a lesbian in 2022.

Why do some people prefer to refer to themselves as ‘queer’ rather than gay or lesbian? What implications does more modern thinking have for lesbian pop culture and history? These questions and more are explored in this enlightening documentary, along with a range of viewpoints that range from a poet, a dental nurse and a great-grandmother. 

More than anything, this documentary gives crucial insight and a platform to an underrepresented group of women in wider media – something we’re totally here for.

As well as a recent star-studded film about a lesbian fight club and a small host of some other great shows to watch, lesbian visibility on TV is pretty hard to come by. That’s part of the reason why everyone needs to tune in.

Where Have All The Lesbians Gone? is available to watch on All4 now.

Image: Channel 4

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