Out actress Queen Latifah plays the lesbian character Cleo Simms in SET IT OFF (1996).

Gay director Joe Mantello’s 1997 film adaptation of gay playwright Terrence McNally’s Tony award winning Broadway play, “Love! Valour! Compassion!” (1994).

In the bizarre and wonderfully camp 1994 horror flick TAMMY & THE T-REX, Tammy (Denise Richards) and her gay best friend Byron (Theo Forsett) try to save her T-Rex boyfriend (Paul Walker).

Jill Schoelen and Tom Villard star in the 1991 meta slasher film POPCORN.

Queer filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald’s 1998 docudrama BEEFCAKE looks at the life and work of pioneering gay photographer Bob Mizer.

Alessandro Gassman & Mehmet Günsür star in out writer/director Ferzan Özpetek’s critically acclaimed 1997 film HAMAM (or, Steam: The Turkish Bath).

Laurel Holloman and Nicole Ari Parker star in queer filmmaker Maria Maggenti's 1995 film THE INCREDIBLY TRUE ADVENTURE OF 2 GIRLS IN LOVE.

Steve Bell and Ian Rose star in Paul Oremland’s 1998 gay British romantic drama LIKE IT IS.

Steve Zahn is Sammy, the Gay Best Friend, in actor/director Ben Stiller’s 1994 film REALITY BITES.

Canadian filmmaker John Greyson’s 1996 New Queer Cinema classic LILIES.

Mary-Louise Parker and Mary Stuart Masterson are subtextual sapphics in Director Jon Avnet's 1991 film adaptation of FRIED GREEN TOMATOES.

Matt Damon and Jude Law star in Anthony Minghella’s 1999 adaptation of lesbian author Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”

Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston star in the 1998 film THE OBJECT OF MY AFFECTION, which was adapted for the screen by Wendy Wasserstein and gay director Nicholas Hynter from gay writer Stephen McCauley’s 1987 novel of the same name.

THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE (1995) and A VERY BRADY SEQUEL (1996) had some key gay writers working behind the scenes.

Scar (Jeremy Irons) in Disney’s 1994 animated feature THE LION KING is one in a long line of queer-coded villains in Disney films.