The Gay Divorce becomes The Gay Divorcee
Dorothy Arzner: Lesbian was Sole Woman Director in Hollywood's Golden Age (at Yahoo Voices)
Dorothy Arzner (at Senses of Cinema)
Gay Coding and Counter-coding in The Gay Divorcee (Microsoft Word document)
Explicitly Gay to Completely Straight
Explicitly Gay: I Didn't Just Kiss Her - Jen Foster (first 30 seconds)
Gay Coded: Homosapien - (first 30 seconds)
Gay Sensibility: Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland (first 35 seconds)
Gay Appropriation: Secret Love - Doris Day (first 30 seconds)
Completely Straight: When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge (first 30 seconds)
Grady Sutton, the ultimate sissy in a clip from Movie Crazy (1932)
, about 1/2 minute long Laurel and Hardy - Their First Mistake In the Closet - Gay and Lesbian
Portrayals in Movies Before the Stonewall Riots (1969)
Osher Lifelong Learning
Institute Connie Hossier, Instructor
full sequence including the short clip seen on The Celluloid Closet
1932 sound film, about 21 minutes long
Laurel and Hardy in an incredible gender-bending two reeler.
(colorized version)
Part 1
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Part 2
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Scott Badman,
Instructor