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The 127 Year History of LGBTQ+ Representation in Film By Abby Monteil, Stacker News On 6/15/21 at 8:00 PM EDT Depictions of queer and trans people have been present in the film medium since its inception more than 100 years ago. But due to censorship and varying degrees of prejudice against the LGBTQ+ community at different points in time, representation onscreen has a long, complicated, and often coded history. While gay characters were frequently used for laughs or not explicitly stated to...

Theatrical release poster for The Birth of a Nation, distributed by Epoch Film Co. (Wikimedia Commons)  As we approach the centenary of the Tulsa Race Massacre and experience a growing recognition of its horrors, it is worth remembering a question raised by Daniel Lord, S.J. (1888-1955), one of the most influential Catholic priests in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s. Did the rise of the movie industry fuel the flames of racial hatred in the United States? Lord grew up in Chicag...