Fun home comic5/19/2023 ![]() It's hard to quite capture just how important the success of Dykes to Watch Out For had on gay popular culture in the 1980s. It ran from 1983 until 2008, as Bechdel was working on the follow-up to Fun Home. The strip that it appeared in was Dykes to Watch Out For, Bechdel' long-running comic strip series about a group of friend living in an average American city, with most of the cast being lesbians. ![]() It was an idea that a friend of hers had and that Bechdel then put into print (Bechdel notes that it came from a friend in the strip). You would be surprised by how many films fail the "Bechdel Test." Amusingly, despite the title, Bechdel did not coin the test herself. The test is to only watch movies where two women have a conversation in the film without discussing a male character. The "Bechdel Test," a rule for popular culture that was first mentioned in a comic strip by Bechdel in the 1980s. Tragically, her father died soon after Bechdel outed herself to her family, so she never really had a chance to have any in-depth conversation about his sexuality and how/why he kept it hidden for so long while his own daughter was coming to terms with her own sexuality (the comic was adapted into a Tony Award winning Best Musical, with Best Music and Lyrics) and 2. Her memoir, Fun Home, about how Bechdel came out as a lesbian to her family right before discovering that her father was closeted all through his life, as well. ![]() Bechdel, of course, is probably most famous nowadays for two things. ![]()
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