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

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.

Lauren Bacall is Amy, a queer-coded heiress, in the 1950 Michael Curtiz film YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN, based on Dorothy Baker’s popular 1938 novel of the same name.

Hiroshi (Kōji Mitsui) and Tokiko (Kinuyo Tanaka) are queer-coded characters in Yasujirō Ozu’s 1933 Japanese silent film HIJŌSEN NO ONNA (aka DRAGNET GIRL).

Warner Baxter’s character, Julian Marsh, in the 1933 pre-code musical 42nd STREET was originally written as gay - but only a brief glimpse of subtext remains in the film adaptation.