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Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)

Gay director Joe Mantello’s 1997 film adaptation of gay playwright Terrence McNally’s Tony award winning Broadway play, “Love! Valour! Compassion!” (1994).

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Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

Katharine Hepburn finds herself in some queer situations while disguised as a young man in gay director George Cukor’s 1935 film SYLVIA SCARLETT.

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Palmy Days (1931)

The 1931 pre-code Hollywood film PALMY DAYS features a “Pansy” buying a cake, drag, and two queer-coded leads

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I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)

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.

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Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)

In the bizarre and wonderfully camp 1994 horror flick TAMMY & THE T-REX, Tammy (Denise Richards) and her gay best friend Byron (Theo Forsett) try to save her T-Rex boyfriend (Paul Walker).

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A Change of Sex (1979)

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.

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