The Women of Brewster Place1989

Theresa:
So what? We're nothing but a couple of dykes.

Lorraine:
You can call yourself anything you want to, Tee, but you leave me out of it.

Theresa:
Lorraine, you are a lesbian. A dyke, a lesbo, a butch, all those names that boy was calling you. Yes, I saw it! And you can run in all the basements in the world, and it's not gonna change anything. Why can't you just accept it?

Lorraine:
[angrily] I have accepted it! I've accepted it all my life! I lost my family because of that, but it doesn't make me different than anybody else in this world!

Theresa:
It makes you damned different!

Theresa, Lorraine:
No, it doesn't! [opens a package and takes out some underwear] Do you see this? There's only been two things in my life that have been constant since I was sixteen! That was beige bras and oatmeal. The day before I first fell in love with a woman, I got up in the morning, had oatmeal for breakfast, I put on my beige bra and went to school. The day after I feel in love with that woman, I got up in the morning, had oatmeal for breakfast, put on my beige bra and went to school. I was no different before that happened or after that happened, Tee.

Theresa:
And what did you do the next day you went to school? Did you stand around in the locker room and swap stories about this new love in your life with the other girls? Why didn't you stand up there in that locker room and pass her picture around? Why didn't you take her to the senior prom? Hmm? Why not? Lorraine, answer me.

Lorraine:
[quietly] Because they wouldn't have understood.

Theresa:
That's right! And as long as they own the whole damn world, it's them and us. And that spells different!