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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 be queer in most early mainstream Hollywood films, a brief relaxation in Germany s film production code in the early 20th century allowed for LGBTQ+ classics like