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.

Julia Grant discusses her life as a transgender woman in 1979 in the BBC docuseries A CHANGE OF SEX. According to the BBC, this was the first mainstream series to document a person’s transition on British television.

Cillian Murphy stars as Kitten, a young transgender woman seeking a place to call home while attempting to track down her birth mother, in Neil Jordan’s 2005 film BREAKFAST ON PLUTO.

Steve Bell and Ian Rose star in Paul Oremland’s 1998 gay British romantic drama LIKE IT IS.

Deborah Kerr and Paul Scofield star in the 1982 BBC2 Playhouse adaptation of Noël Coward’s A SONG AT TWILIGHT.

The 1939 British romantic comedy OVER THE MOON features two gay characters.

Bill Nighy plays a gay investigator in director Juan Carlos Medina’s 2016 queer Victorian-era horror film THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM, which is based on the 1994 novel “Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem” by gay author Peter Ackroyd.

Rachael Stirling and Keeley Hawes star in the 2002 BBC adaptation of lesbian author Sarah Waters’ 1998 critically acclaimed novel “Tipping the Velvet”.

The 1935 British drag comedy FIRST A GIRL, Victor Saville’s adaptation of VIKTOR UND VIKTORIA (1933).

The 1995 film STONEWALL blends fact and fiction in its exploration of the events leading up to June 28th, 1969. Screenwriter Rikki Beadle-Blair and the film’s director, Nigel Finch, used author/historian Martin Duberman’s 1994 book “Stonewall” as a guide when crafting their story.

Christine Jorgensen talks to reporters in “G.I. CHRISTINE RETURNS HOME,” a 1953 British Pathé newsreel featuring the trans trailblazer when she returned to America after receiving her gender confirming surgery in Denmark.

Check out what Instagram’s @queerblackhollywood had to say about Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s 2023 thriller FEMME.

Holliday Grainger and Anna Paquin star in the romantic period-drama TELL IT TO THE BEES, Annabel Jankel’s 2018 adaptation of out author Fiona Shaw’s 2009 novel of the same name.

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).