For about as long as there’s been cinema, there’s been queer cinema. I don’t just mean queer subtext, of which there has always been plenty; I mean overtly queer characters as early as Zapatas Bande in 1914, Ich Möchte Kein Mann Sein in 1918, and Anders als die Andern in 1919, all of which were German films made during the country’s Weimar period. There are early examples of films made in Hollywood, too, before the Hays Code was adopted in 1930, that featured LGBTQ+ characters or played with gender identity, albeit in some harmful ways.

We’ve come a long way since then; the past 15 years in particular have been a boon for queer cinema, so much so that there are as many bad movies as good ones. Which means there is space for experimentation and, often, failure for queer and trans cin

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