Writer and activist whose new novel, The Cosmopolitans, tackles race and ageing explains focus on LGBT lives and how gentrification isn’t as simple as it seems
Just as the writer Sarah Schulman and I were finishing up our interview, on a rainy March morning in Manhattan’s East Village, I asked her: what did she think of the state of lesbian content in the arts today?
“Horrible,” she said. The problem with contemporary American representation of lesbians, Schulman continued, lay in the nation’s obsession with the family. “There are no representations of lesbians right now that have broken into the popular culture [about] a person in a family context.” The normalizing structure of the family allows the non-normative family member to be seen by broader society: until that structure can be dispensed with and replaced by the honest perception of lesbians as full human beings, Schulman thinks there will be no improvement.
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