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The first Best Picture Oscar winner, Wings is full of queer undertones. According to Girls Will Be Boys author Laura Horak, critics at the time cited Mackaill’s costumes as one of the growing signs of sexual perversity in cinema. She finds herself entwined with them despite this. John Francis Dillon)īased on a novel by Gertrude Atherton, Dorothy Mackaill as Gita, a butch man-hating woman who dresses in a masculine way to ward off their advances. This zany film again features cross-dressing, including men wearing girdles and donning lipstick. Starring comedienne Alice Ardell, whose persona included wearing traditionally masculine garb, who finds herself initiated into a secret flapper society full of bizarre rituals. While it doesn’t all stick the landing today, it remains a sharp satire about gender norms. The women are styled after prominent lesbians of the time like Radclyffe Hall and Jane Heap. It takes cross-dressing to the extreme with women in suits and cropped hair, with men sporting more traditionally “feminine” flowy garb. Mixing queer themes with sci-fi, this film is set in the world of 2026 where women run society and men are the “weaker” sex. It explores the bittersweet feeling of unrequited love in a tender, melancholic manner. Of course, chaos ensues when she falls for another of the applicants.īased on Herman Bang’s 1902 novel, which was previously adapted in 1916 under the title The Wings, the film follows a painter who falls in love with one of his male models, the titular Michael. When he starts advertising for a new grandson, Jean disguises herself as a boy and applies for the job. While on a trip to Europe, Jean’s (Kathleen Clifford) grandfather disinherits her after discovering her expulsion from college. Kenneth Anger claimed on his book Hollywood Babylon that the entire cast was made of queer actors, and while that’s impossible to prove now, it’s a nice thought. Charles Bryant & Alla Nazimova)Ĭited as one of the first art films ever made in the United States, this decadent take on the Oscar Wilde’s play is lush and flamboyant and is about as queer as you can get. Things get spicy when she meets a handsome doctor and the two fall for each other, with Ossi still disguised as a man! Eventually she disguises herself as a man in order to have more freedom in the world. Ossi Oswalda plays Ossi, an incredibly butch young woman who vexes her uncle with her smoking and poker playing. Ich möchte kein Mann sein (I Don’t Want to Be a Man), 1918 (dir. During his flight he shares an incredibly flirtatious moment with Buster Keaton that makes you wish these two would just get together already! In Good Night, Nurse! he takes it one step further, dressing as a nurse in order to escape a hospital. Roscoe Arbuckle)Īrbuckle had previously cross-dressed as a girl in his film The Butcher Boy in order to infiltrate his fiancée’s dormitory, fooling a great number of people. It’s considered the first pro-gay film ever made. The film was made in response to Germany’s then law against homosexuality. Produced during the Weimar Republic era in Germany, this film stars Conrad Veidt as a violinist who falls in love with one of his students. Swanson looks dapper AF in a tuxedo throughout the film.Īnders als die Andern (Different From The Others), 1918 (dir. Gloria Swanson disguises herself as a man in order to prove to her brother and his friends that they are being taken in by a vamp.