Rupert Everett is Madonna’s gay best friend in out director John Schlesinger’s 2000 film THE NEXT BEST THING.

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).

Gay filmmaker/photographer James Bidgood’s PINK NARCISSUS is a highly influential queer cult classic that was released in 1971.

Rex O'Malley plays the queer-coded gay best friend in queer director Mitchell Leisen’s 1939 screwball comedy MIDNIGHT.