The First Gay Film: 'Different From the Others' From 1919

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THE FIRST GAY FILM: DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS FROM 1919

The gay love story was -wrten by early LGBTQ+ rights activist Magn Hirschfeld. * first gay movie in the world *

Throughout the film, the characters’ attractns are fluid, makg this one of the earlit films to feature lbian, gay, bisexual/pansexual, and transgenr them.

The film was ma rponse to Germany’s then law agast homosexualy. It’s nsired the first pro-gay film ever ma.

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There his sexual tratn manifts the makg of nu statu out of breadcmbs, but also some homoerotic tensn wh fellow mate Aled Marquis.

THE TRAGIC LSONS OF CEMA’S FIRST GAY LOVE STORY

While gay characters were equently ed for lghs or not explicly stated to be queer the earlit mastream Hollywood films, a brief relaxatn Germany's film productn the early 20th century allowed for LGBTQ+ classics like "Different om the Others" and "Mädchen Uniform. In Hollywood, the strict Hays Co forba explic pictns of homosexualy film for three s, durg which there was a slew of queer-d villas. Afterward, gay characters appeared more but often tragic stori like 1961's "The Children's Hour.

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The Tragic Lsons of Cema’s First Gay Love Story | The New Yorker.

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