Sewing Circle (Hollywood)

This article is about the Hollywood usage of the phrase. For social groups for sewing, see Sewing circle.

Sewing Circle (often styled the Hollywood sewing circle) is a euphemism used from the silent era through the mid-twentieth century for informal networks of lesbian and bisexual women, primarily actresses, writers, and filmmakers, in Hollywood. The term is discussed in film history and biography and has been used by curators framing scholarship on sapphic icons of early Hollywood.

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