Queer Film Archives

Queer Cinema Comes Out (1967-1976)

With the death of Hays code in 1967, Queer Cinema was ready to come out of the closet. 1967-1976 can be seen as Queer Cinema’s Stonewall.

Davies’ dialogue is irritatingly precious and the scenes begin to resemble tableaux vivants with Sassoon disappearing into the background.

Only Makis Papadimitriou, a writer who has been hired to document the institute’s proceedings in both images and words, gains our sympathy.

On the other hand, Meuse directs some of the most beautiful and heartfelt scenes ever captured between two men in love.

Hitchcock had a preference for casting gay actors in gay parts: Judith Anderson, Farley Granger, John Dall, Raymond Burr or Anthony Perkins.