Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady Corbet star in queer writer/director Gregg Araki’s 2004 adaptation of Scott Heim’s 1995 novel “Mysterious Skin.”

Gay star Clifton Webb plays the queer-coded villain Waldo Lydecker in the 1944 film-noir classic LAURA.

Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant star as two law-breaking gay best friends in the 2018 film CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?

Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine star in out director/co-writer Matthew López’s 2023 adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s bestselling 2019 novel “Red, White & Royal Blue.”

Cillian Murphy stars as Kitten, a young transgender woman seeking a place to call home while attempting to track down her birth mother, in Neil Jordan’s 2005 film BREAKFAST ON PLUTO.

CAPOTE follows gay author Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) during the six-year period in which he was researching and writing his 1966 true crime novel, “In Cold Blood.”

Gustav von Aschenbach, played by queer actor Dirk Bogarde, gets a makeover in queer filmmaker Luchino Visconti’s controversial 1971 film DEATH IN VENICE.

Bill Nighy plays a gay investigator in director Juan Carlos Medina’s 2016 queer Victorian-era horror film THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM, which is based on the 1994 novel “Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem” by gay author Peter Ackroyd.

Rachael Stirling and Keeley Hawes star in the 2002 BBC adaptation of lesbian author Sarah Waters’ 1998 critically acclaimed novel “Tipping the Velvet”.

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.

Queer filmmaker Q. Allan Brocka’s 2006 film BOY CULTURE was adapted from Matthew Rettenmund's 1995 novel (of the same name) and in 2021 received a sequel series (currently streaming on Dekkoo).

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.