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.

Queer filmmaker and historian Jenni Olson’s 2015 film THE ROYAL ROAD.

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.

Director Amy Holden Jones’ 1982 slasher flick THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE features a screenplay by queer author and activist Rita Mae Brown.

If you’re looking for something spooky to watch this Halloween, check out this list of lesbian vampire classics from the 1960s/70s.

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

Isabél Zuaa and Marjorie Estiano star in Brazilian writer/directors Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s 2017 sapphic werewolf film GOOD MANNERS (As Boas Maneiras).

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

David France’s 2012 documentary HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE follows AIDS activists in the 1980s/90s.

Emelie Garbers and Bianca Cruzeiro star in Pella Kågerman & Hugo Lilja’s 2018 sapphic sci-fi film ANIARA.

Aisha Dee stars in the 2022 queer Australian horror film SISSY.

Jean Engstrom plays a stylish queer-coded interior designer in the 1957 horror flick VOODOO ISLAND.