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

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

Disney loves a queer-coded villain, and their classic 1985

film RETURN TO OZ features two of them.

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

Mark Patton stars in the 1985 queer cult classic A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE.

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

The 1931 pre-code Hollywood film PALMY DAYS features a “Pansy” buying a cake, drag, and two queer-coded leads

Agnes Moorehead and Lenita Lane are “roommates” in the 1959 thriller THE BAT.

The pre-code film THE BROADWAY MELODY of 1929 features a gay costume designer named Turpe (Drew Demorest).

Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie & Susan Sarandon star in Tony Scott’s 1983 classic queer vampire film THE HUNGER.

The 1935 Hollywood Hays Code-era Astaire & Rogers musical TOP HAT features three queer-coded side characters.

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

China Chow is Monica Potter’s gay best friend in director Mark Water’s (MEAN GIRLS, FREAKY FRIDAY) 2001 romantic comedy HEAD OVER HEELS.

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.”