Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady Corbet star in queer writer/director Gregg Araki’s 2004 adaptation of Scott Heim’s 1995 novel “Mysterious Skin.”

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.

Trans and Muxe identity is explored in the 2024 Mexican series THE SECRET OF THE RIVER (El secreto del río) – now streaming on Netflix!

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

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

Out writer/directors Wesley Taylor and Alex Wyse’s wonderfully gay 2023 horror-comedy SUMMONING SYLVIA.

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

Out filmmaker Sebastián Silva’s 2023 film ROTTING IN THE SUN.

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.