Before obvly gay characters were allowed on the big screen, subtle (and not so subtle) ditors were ed. Here are our favore 12.
Contents:
#TBT: BREAKG THE GAY CO THE MOVI
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. 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.