Movies about homosexuality

It’s grainy, faded, and, given the clip is now years old, more than a little worse for wear. But this brief footage is not so ancient that you can’t clearly produce out two men, waltzing together, as a third male plays a violin in the background. It was an experimental short made by William Dickson, designed to examine syncing up moving pictures to prerecorded sound, a system that he and Thomas Edison were developing known as the Kinetophone. It’s known as “The Dickson Experimental Sound Film,” and dates back to , the same year movies were born. While there’s nothing to outright advise that these men were romantically deeply interested or attracted to each other during the roughly second length of their pas de deux, there is nothing that contradicts that notion either. It’s considered by many to be one of the first examples of lgbtq+ imagery in clip, and a reminder that homosexual visibility has been with the medium from the very beginning.

That clip appears in The Celluloid Closet, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s