Hamlet (Asta Nielsen) is a woman pretending to be a man in the 1921 German silent classic HAMLET, which results in some very queer situations.

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).

Alice (Sherry Cola) is Ben’s (Justin H. Min) gay best friend in director Randall Park’s 2023 film adaptation of Adrian Tomine’s 2007 graphic novel “Shortcomings.”

TAKING WOODSTOCK, Filmmaker Ang Lee’s 2009 adaptation of gay author Elliot Tiber’s 2007 memoir “Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life.”

Nicolás Armengol, Emiliano Dionisi and Carlos Echevarria star in Argentinian filmmaker Rodrigo Guerrero’s 2014 film THE THIRD ONE (El tercero).

Gay filmmaker/photographer James Bidgood’s PINK NARCISSUS is a highly influential queer cult classic that was released in 1971.

Devery Jacobs, Kudakwashe Rutendo and Evan Rachel Wood star in nonbinary director D.W. Waterson’s film BACKSPOT – which opens in theatres in Canada/USA on Friday, May 31, 2024.

Historian Shane Brown’s 2020 documentary “A Queer Romance: Gay Characters and Male Bonding in Early Film (silent film and pre-code),” based on his book “Queer Sexualities in Early Film: Cinema and Male-Male Intimacy.”

Delphine Seyrig seduces as “glampire” Countess Elizabeth Bàthory in Harry Kümel’s 1971 queer Belgian horror classic DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS.

Antonio Fargas is the gay best friend in Paul Mazursky’s semi-autobiographical 1976 film NEXT STOP, GREENWICH VILLAGE.

MUCHACHAS DE UNIFORME is the 1951 Mexican adaptation of the 1931 German film MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM; the film is thought to be the first Mexican feature to prominently include lesbianism as its main theme.

Todd Flaherty and Wyatt Fenner star as drag performing besties in writer/director/star Flaherty’s 2022 film CHRISSY JUDY.

The 1932 pre-code Hollywood film CALL HER SAVAGE was one of the earliest mainstream American films to feature a glimpse inside what is likely a gay bar.