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Article: The lesbian years: the Cagney & Lacey icon on her first lesbian role, encountering Helen Mirren and that ugly wig she wore on Queer As Folk.(Sharon Gless)(Interview)
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- Curve
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- November 1, 2009
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Sharon Gless, who played Christine Cagney on the groundbreaking TV series Cagney & Lacey, has finally taken her first starring role as a lesbian. In the smash festival hit Hannah Free, a film about a lifelong love affair between two women, Gless plays Hannah, an adventurous, unapologetic lesbian who has never stopped longing for her first love, Rachel. The film, based on a play by award-winning playwright Claudia Allen, reveals how the women maintained their love through decades of infidelity, family strife and long-distance yearning.
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