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.

Prince Belshazzar (Alfred Paget) and his guard (Elmo Lincoln) share in one of Hollywood’s earliest onscreen same-sex kisses in D.W. Griffith’s 1916 silent epic INTOLERANCE: LOVE’S STRUGGLE THROUGH THE AGES