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VICTOR/VICTORIA (1982)

Julie Andrews masquerades as a gay man in drag in writer/director Blake Edwards’ 1982 gender-bending musical comedy VICTOR/VICTORIA.

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Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

Katharine Hepburn finds herself in some queer situations while disguised as a young man in gay director George Cukor’s 1935 film SYLVIA SCARLETT.

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CAMP (2003)

Out writer/director Todd Graff’s 2003 musical comedy-drama CAMP follows a group of teenagers at a summer camp for the performing arts.

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Some Like it Hot (1959)

Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis dress in drag, and find themselves in some queer situations, in Billy Wilder's classic 1959 comedy SOME LIKE IT HOT.

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Tipping the Velvet (2002)

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

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Queer Frame Archive:

Andrew Proctor, a film editor and creator of The Queer Frame Archive, gives us the history behind The Gay Girls Riding Club in his latest video essay on YouTube. The Gay Girls Riding Club was a small film production company made by a group of LA gays in the 1960s.

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STONEWALL (1995)

The 1995 film STONEWALL blends fact and fiction in its exploration of the events leading up to June 28th, 1969. Screenwriter Rikki Beadle-Blair and the film’s director, Nigel Finch, used author/historian Martin Duberman’s 1994 book “Stonewall” as a guide when crafting their story.

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FEMME (2023)

Check out what Instagram’s @queerblackhollywood had to say about Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s 2023 thriller FEMME.

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CHRISSY JUDY (2022)

Todd Flaherty and Wyatt Fenner star as drag performing besties in writer/director/star Flaherty’s 2022 film CHRISSY JUDY.

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Call Her Savage (1932)

The 1932 pre-code Hollywood film CALL HER SAVAGE was one of the earliest mainstream American films to feature a glimpse inside what is likely a gay bar.

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