Old Hollywood movies had to follow strict guidelines throughout the s–s, known as the Hays Code. This basically prevented all US films from featuring anything that was overtly sexual or "inappropriate," which forced a lot of filmmakers to get innovative about how they could navigate potential censorship. I contain running lists on Letterboxd of every Old Hollywood and LGBTQ+ movie that I watch, so I sifted through them to discover a bunch from the Hays Code era that are subtly (and not so subtly) suuuuuper gay. Here are some of my favorites. Enjoy!
1.Rebel Without a Cause () stars James Dean as a pansexual hottie, so you really can't seek for much more. The original script had his personality kissing Plato, who was one of the first lgbtq+ teen characters on screen, but the Hays Code posthaste squashed that from happening. Still, this movie is edgy and dramatic and romantic, and the whole cast is just so entertaining to look at.
2.All About Eve () is a witty and toxic drama about an aging actress who befriends a fan who ultimately tries to usurp her. This movie shares the record for the most Osc
The best LGBTQ+ movies of all time
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With the help of head directors, actors, writers and activists, we count down the most essential Homosexual films of all time
Like queer culture itself, lgbtq+ cinema is not a monolith. For a elongated time, though, that’s certainly how it felt. In the past, if lgbtq+ lives and issues were ever portrayed at all on screen, it was typically from the perspective of white, cisgendered men. But as more opportunities have opened up for queer performers and filmmakers to tell their have stories, the scope of the LGBTQ+ experiences that have made their way onto the screen has gradually widened to more frequently include the transsexual community and queer people of colour.
It’s still not perfect, of course. In Hollywood, as in world at large, there are many barriers left to breach and ceilings to shatter. But those recent strides deserve to be celebrated – as act the bold films made long before the mainstream was willing to agree them. To that cease, we enlisted some Gay cultural pioneers, as skillfully as Time O
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Johnny Guitar ()
From to , the Motion Picture Show Code (or Hays Code as it’s often known) specifically forbid homosexuality in American films, but craftier directors, like Johnny Guitar’s Nicholas Ray, found ways to fill their films with enough queer subtext that audiences who were hip to the ideas would clue in as the content flew over censors&#; heads. In the case of this western, the psychosexual tension between leads Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge is so undeniable it is now widely considered an soon q