Naomi Ackie stars as bisexual icon Whitney Houston in director Kasi Lemmons’s 2022 biopic WHITNEY HOUSTON: I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY.

Richard Oswald and Magnus Hirschfeld’s 1919 silent classic DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS (Anders als die Andern) is thought to be the first gay feature-length film - it’s also one of the earliest films to depict homosexuality in a positive way.

Lynn Chen, Michelle Krusiec & Joan Chen star in queer filmmaker Alice Wu’s pioneering 2004 lesbian rom-com SAVING FACE.

William Wellman’s WINGS (1927) was the first film to win the “Best Picture” Academy Award – it also features what has been interpreted by many as a bourgeoning love between its leading men.

Christian Campbell and John Paul Pitoc star in the 1999 romantic comedy Trick, a classic from queer creatives Jason Schafer (writer) and Jim Fall (Director).

Billy Quirk plays one of cinema’s earliest queer protagonists in the 1912 silent film ALGIE THE MINER. The film was directed (in part), and also produced, by French filmmaker Alice Guy Blaché who was one of cinema’s first female directors.

Simone Simon plays the queer-coded character Irena in the 1942 classic horror film Cat People, which features a script penned by gay screenwriter DeWitt Bodeen.

The 1928 (partially) silent film OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS features two quick kisses, and a surprising amount of queer-coding, between Joan Crawford and Dorothy Sebastian’s characters.

Tanner Cohen uses a magical pansy to turn homophobes gay in director/co-writer Tom Gustafson’s 2008 musical film Were the World Mine.

The classic 1985 lesbian romance film Desert Hearts, directed and produced by out filmmaker Donna Deitch.

Bisexual icon Greta Garbo stars in gay director George Cukor’s 1936 adaptation of Camille, a very queer production.

Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd star in the 2004 musical biopic “De-Lovely,” based on the life of gay American composer, and songwriter, Cole Porter.

Queer relationships and sexual attraction among samurai men is explored in acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Ōshima’s 1999 film GOHATTO (Taboo).

Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, and George Macready star in Director Charles Vidor’s 1946 film noir classic GILDA, which features a (barely) subtextual bisexual love triangle between its three lead characters.

River Gallo and Indya Moore spar over the differences and similarities of the trans and intersex experience in the neo-noir intersex coming of age story, PONYBOI.