Before obvly gay characters were allowed on the big screen, subtle (and not so subtle) ditors were ed. Here are our favore 12.
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Pl Giant gets some kd of an award for the most gay and bisexual actors ever one film: Jam Dean, Rock Hudson, Sal Meo, Earl Holliman, and while Merces never personally me out, she played the most fiercely dykey rol on-screen to perfectn. Brandon (John Dall) and Phillip (Farley Granger) Rope, 1948 Aled Hchck was fascated by gay and lbian characters, and there are sly and not so sly referenc many of his films.
This time bi actor Farley Granger gets to be smacked around some for beg hysteril and nelly, which is fely for gay. Jam Stewart's Rupert Call may or may not be gay tentn, but if the origal stg choice of Ray Milland had played the role we would have been much more likely to see him as gay. Phillip Vandamm (Jam Mason) and Leonard (Mart Land), North by Northwt, 1959In another gay-clive Hchck classic, suave villa Phillip Vandamm has a thg gog wh Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Sat), who's actually an Amerin spy tryg to fd out how he's exportg secrets to our Cold War-era enemi.
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Cairo was clearly gay the 1930 Dashiell Hammett novel on which the film is based; movi of the era uldn't be que so overt, but Lorre's Cairo is so effemate that he fs a certa stereotype of a gay man.
" Along wh his high-toned manner of speakg, his impecble clothg and cigarette holr signal gayns, and he seems terted women only to make them stars. Addison is said to have been based on one of two acerbic New York crics of the 20th century, Gee Jean Nathan (apparently straight) or Alexanr Woolltt, who was gay.
Played unfettably by gay actor Clifton Webb, Waldo is the most fascatg character the film, and he'd agree wh that asssment. Kfman-Moss Hart play, "Sherry" (played by gay actor Monty Woolley, a pal of Cole Porter's) make lif miserable for the uple, his nurse, and his secretary, and enurag his hosts' son and dghter to rebel. Also like them, he has an effete manner and acid tongue that mark him as a certa type of gay man.
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They clu playwright Beverly Carlton, who talks about scg South Seas mains but, as played by Regald Garder, reads as pretty gay, and after all, the character is based on Noel Coward. Throughout the '30s, '40s and '50s, the public perceptn of gays and lbians was that they were sick and disturbed -- and therefore dangero.
While overt referenc to homosexualy were long prohibed film, skilled filmmakers created characters that displayed subtle yet clearly queer one handled this more ftly than director Aled Hchck, the master of spense and psychosexual anxiety -- who often st closeted gay actors gay-ish rol. As more varied imag of gay characters have appeared on film, some queer villas have bee more plex.
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This stereotype of an effemate villa (seen four more tim on this list) taps to the viewer's homophobia -- makg pecially gratifyg to see them feated by the more macho hero.
Damagg StereotypeWaldo Lycker -- Lra (1944)Gay actor Clifton Webb is at his most bchy and ntrollg as the evil queen who attempts to transform Gene Tierney's myster and tular Lra.
Damagg StereotypePhilip and Brandon -- Rope (1948)Farley Granger and John Dall star this fictnal variatn on the real-life Leopold and Loeb se -- a story of two upper-class gay guys who m a murr jt for kicks. Hch Knows BtAddison DeWt -- All About Eve (1950)Gee Sanrs earned a Bt Supportg Actor Osr as the manipulative queen bch theater cric, spirg a generatn of wty, evil, proto-gay villas.