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

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

film RETURN TO OZ features two of them.

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.

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

Physique model Gary Conway becomes the monstrous object of fixation for the queer-coded Professor Frankenstein (Whit Bissell) in Herbert L. Strock’s 1957 horror film I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN.

Jill Schoelen and Tom Villard star in the 1991 meta slasher film POPCORN.

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

Claude Rains and Gloria Stuart star in iconic gay director James Whale’s 1933 pre-code Hollywood horror film THE INVISIBLE MAN.

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

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

The 1933 pre-code adaptation of Eugene O'Neill’s 1920 play “The Emperor Jones” features a queer-coded character named Marcella, played by queer actor/comedian Jackie “Moms” Mabley.

Otho, played by gay actor Glenn Shadix, is Delia Deetz’s (Catherine O'Hara) gay best friend in Tim Burton’s 1988 film BEETLEJUICE.