Warner Baxter’s character, Julian Marsh, in the 1933 pre-code musical 42nd STREET was originally written as gay - but only a brief glimpse of subtext remains in the film adaptation.

Hamlet (Asta Nielsen) is a woman pretending to be a man in the 1921 German silent classic HAMLET, which results in some very queer situations.

Holliday Grainger and Anna Paquin star in the romantic period-drama TELL IT TO THE BEES, Annabel Jankel’s 2018 adaptation of out author Fiona Shaw’s 2009 novel of the same name.

James Ivory’s 1987 gay period drama MAURICE was adapted from the 1914 novel of the same name by gay author E.M. Forster (which wasn’t published until 1971).

Alice (Sherry Cola) is Ben’s (Justin H. Min) gay best friend in director Randall Park’s 2023 film adaptation of Adrian Tomine’s 2007 graphic novel “Shortcomings.”

TAKING WOODSTOCK, Filmmaker Ang Lee’s 2009 adaptation of gay author Elliot Tiber’s 2007 memoir “Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life.”

MUCHACHAS DE UNIFORME is the 1951 Mexican adaptation of the 1931 German film MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM; the film is thought to be the first Mexican feature to prominently include lesbianism as its main theme.

The 2020 series, CHERRY MAGIC! THIRTY YEARS OF VIRGINITY CAN MAKE YOU A WIZARD?! is based on the 2018 “Boys’ Love” (Yaoi) manga of the same name by writer/illustrator Yuu Toyota.

The 2023 animated series FROG AND TOAD is based on the classic children’s books of the same name by gay author/illustrator Arnold Lobel.

Catherine Zeta Jones plays Theo, a bisexual insomniac, in THE HAUNTING - Jan de Bont’s 1999 adaptation of the classic 1959 Shirley Jackson novel, “The Haunting of Hill House.”

Clifton Webb is the queer-coded wealthy “bachelor” Elliott Templeton in Edmund Goulding’s 1946 adaptation of queer author W. Somerset Maugham’s 1944 novel “The Razor’s Edge.”

Candice Bergen, in her screen debut, plays a lesbian named Lakey in Sidney Lumet’s 1966 adaptation of Mary McCarthy’s 1963 bestselling novel “The Group.”

Karla-Simone Spence and Sophie Cookson star in the 2022 adaptation of Sara Collins’ 2019 novel “The Confessions of Frannie Langton.”

Ferdinand the Bull is a classic queer-coded character from Disney’s early days, featured in the 1938 animated short of the same name and based on Munro Leaf’s 1936 children’s book “The Story of Ferdinand.”