Contents:
- CHAPTER 3 – QUEERS AND DYK THE DARK: CLASSIC, NOIR & HORROR CEMA’S COD GAY CHARACTERS:
- GAY SUBTEXT OLD MOVI
- EDDIE MULLER’S LIST OF FILM NOIR’S TOP 10 (MAYBE) GAY COUPL
CHAPTER 3 – QUEERS AND DYK THE DARK: CLASSIC, NOIR & HORROR CEMA’S COD GAY CHARACTERS:
” The scene hts at Cornell’s reprsed homosexual passn. Frankie Christopher “You’re a gay dog, Cornell.
… Vicki was pretty, gay, and amg She had lots to offer and I wanted to put her the right place on the map. The subtle gay gangster films of the early 1930s – Ltle Caar 1931, The Public Enemy 1931 and Srface 1932. The three films also evenhandly parcel out social pathology and sexual aberratn: homosexualy Ltle Caar.
A dimutive band whose sgle-md ambn pensat ls for his stature than his reprsed homosexual sire, Caar Enri Banllo is pact, swarthy and tightly wound; his goln boy pal Joe played by the scn of Hollywood royalty Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
GAY SUBTEXT OLD MOVI
Another tertg pot Ltle Caar that hts at his latent homosexualy is a scene that highlights his clumsy fss.
Acrdg to Mislak In Howard Hawk’s Srface (1932), uld be seen as havg a gay subtext, as Anton ‘Tony’ Camonte (Pl Muni) shows a reprsed homosexual sire for his bt iend Guo Raldo played by Gee Raft. Through my readgs, has been noted that there is a d gayns ferred om the character of Camonte Srface. He wears a rnatn which is a for beg a gay man film.
EDDIE MULLER’S LIST OF FILM NOIR’S TOP 10 (MAYBE) GAY COUPL
“The placement of homosexualy or the real possibily of an antisocial ntext is que natural.
Homosexualy when is visible is antisocial. The only ndn unr which homosexualy has ever been socially acceptable has been on the ocsn of s voluntary visibily, when homosexualy were willg to pass for heterosexuals. Obv homosexual behavr is reflected onscreen as real life, only the ‘twilight world’ of misf nduct.
Durg the brief perd of explic reference to homosexuals pre-Co films of the early 1930s. Gay characters were psychologilly ghettoized by their route relegatns to a fantasy world or an unrworld life….