"The L Word" has been marketed by Showtime as a kind of premium-cable Certs: a manifesto of lesbian liberation and visual candy for men.

In retrospect, I have to admit that the giddy excitement of the new environment, and the sheer lesbian liberation of the first years in New York, did not allow much room for sorrow in adjusting from island to urban.

Thus, support for lesbians and an open commitment to lesbian liberation was argued to be "absolutely essential to the success and fulfillment of the women's liberation movement."

"We felt as well," Jay wrote, "that the zap was only the first of many actions to come and that lesbian liberation was suddenly and unstoppably on the rise" (145).