The Wild Party

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I came back to Chicago on Saturday evening and had tons of plans for Sunday, which were only partially realized. One of the things I’ve done is watch the Wild Party movie at the Siskel Center. It was the first movie of the 20th Century Queer series, filmed in 1929. It was definitely an interesting one, especially in how openly it presented bisexual characters, and their balancing between lesbian and heterosexual relationships. You almost think that you are imagining things … except that you are not! Dorothy Arzner, the film director, was an open lesbian, and somehow, in the 1920s, it was still OK to make films like this (or nobody figured out yet that the homoerotic topic should be tabooed).

Now I am curious whether there were other movies like that!

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My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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