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Xenia (2014)

Stefanos (Konstantinos Georgopoulos) asks Dany (Kostas Nikouli) out in writer/director Panos H. Koutras’ 2014 film XENIA.

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VICTOR/VICTORIA (1982)

Julie Andrews masquerades as a gay man in drag in writer/director Blake Edwards’ 1982 gender-bending musical comedy VICTOR/VICTORIA.

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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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