A question about lesbian, romantic fantasies

[willrose]

I'm writing a story that has character who is a lesbian. I'm trying to determine an emotional climax for this character that involves her dream woman (by that I mean she has met the woman of her dreams). What I'm looking for is the sort of fantasy one might romantically daydream about. For instance, in heterosexual relationships:
- In the film An Officer and a Gentleman, the emotional climax is when Richard Gere in full uniform carries Debra Winger out of the factory.
- In the film Notting Hill, it's when the lowly bookshop owner stands up in a press conference and tells the movie star what a fool he has been and how much he loves her.
- In Romeo and Juliet, it's when Romeo professes his love to Juliet at her balcony.
- In the film Jerry Maguire it's when Renée Zellweger says 'You had me at hello'.

I know the above are all cheesy but my question is what sort of romantic fantasies might you daydream about but, obviously, informed by the lesbian experience. I'm not interested in graphic sexual encounters just what would stir you emotionally - and upliftingly - in a story?

I hope this question makes some sort of sense and doesn't sound too patronising.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Love stories are not the emotional property of hets alone. Those desires are universal. Take any of those scenes and;

1) put a woman in the uniform of a guard, have her carry her girlfriend out of the factory.
2) it's really zero stretch of the imagination to make a bookshop owner female.
3) that one's been done at least once, I can't remember what film. Fucking teenagers, and their dramas.
4) Speaking as a butch, if Renee Zellweger told me I had her at hello-- I'd... I dunno what I'd do.

Keep in mind that there's the added element of defiance of the heteronormative world. All of those women were raised by people who expected and assumed that they would play their love scenes out with men. So it's not only the guard carrying the girl-- not only the class issue-- but that the guard is a woman, in defiance of all odds, and she's chosen a woman. Her proactive (commonly read as masculine trait) nature, in a body that has tits (commonly read as property), and that she's made it impossible to ignore that, is a crucial part of that fantasy.

Just-- do us a favor, okay? Whatever your romantic plot twists are, please, please don't make any one of them hinge on someone being forced to marry a man, or one of the women coming down with consumption, or living with an intolerable burden of guilt for letting the family down because of the man she didn't marry, or worry about her orientation being a lie, or nobly telling the only woman she'll ever love to go ahead and marrythat guy-- read 'the Well Of Loneliness,' and vow to never write that story.