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"One of the earliest direct references to male homosexuality in an American film came, predictably, in a comedy spoof. Stan Laurel's one-reel comedy short The Soilers (1923) was a takeoff on Rex Beach's popular 1914 western The Spoilers [...] This is one of the first examples of the use of the 'harmless sissy' image to present homosexuality. The sometimes silent connection between effeminate and homosexual was unmistakably evident here because the gay cowboy looked not like a woman but like any other cowboy in the film. The difference was that he preferred men-- and therefore 'behaved' like a woman. The primping and fussing mannerisms of the cowboy were certainly women-identified, even though female impersonation was not a factor. Yet this was exactly the sort of thing the censors were watching for." - The Celluloid Closet by Vito Russo

The Soilers dir. Ralph Ceder (1923)

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The Celluloid Closet (1995)

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Funeral Parade of Roses | Toshio Matsumoto | 1969

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East Palace, West Palace (东宫西宫). 1996. Dir. Zhang Yuan (张元).

Zhang Yuan’s East Palace, West Palace is the first Mainland Chinese film to explicitly depict homosexuality. Based on a short story by renowned writer Wang Xiaobo, the film stars Hu Jun as a policeman on patrol at the Forbidden Palace, a location known for being a secret gathering spot for gay men at night. He arrests a young man and brings him back to his office for an interrogation which ends up lasting the entire night, as the young man engages the policeman in a seductive retelling of the painful history of his own sexuality. East Palace West Palace is a haunting exploration of the depths of forbidden sexuality and the unstable power dynamic between the state and the marginalized individual.

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2008

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it's easy to make fun of marxists for being like "we have a special way of understanding society called Thinking About Things That Are Real" but to be fair if you ask the average person what their ideas about society are based on they will start listing some of the Least Real things to ever not exist

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Elvira, Lady Bunny, Björk, Willi Ninja, and Lady Miss Kier of Deee-Lite photographed for Fur Is A Drag in NYC, 1993.

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Audience note from test screening of VIDEODROME, 1983

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This person hated videodrome so much they forgot their gender

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Happy pride you guys 🤍

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listening to songs

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