Bang bang: Fassbinder’s debut, Love Is Colder Than Death, is a genuinely fluid depiction of identity, sex, and love that reflected the director’s own matter-of-fact bisexuality
What’s your pleasure? Clive Barker’s Hellraiser couples S&M with a heavy dose of homoeroticism that makes it an unapologetic violation of heteronormative standards
Over the rainbow: The Harvey Girls offers a quintessential example of the complex Judy Garland persona, embodying her movie star effervescence yet pointing toward darker roads
Looking back: Lucio Castro’s End of the Century is a temporally unexpected work in which possible pasts and potential futures intermingle to create an unstable now
Red alert: the discomforts of George Cukor’s Sylvia Scarlett are precisely what have given the film its longevity as an object of curiosity and affection
Dignified options: Dorothy Arzner's Dance, Girl, Dance is a case study for how Hollywood comedy could convey vivid queerness beneath a seemingly formula exterior
