Queer & Now & Then

No place like home: Robert Altman’s Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean centers on a vibrantly portrayed transgender character

Not up to code: in Edward Dmytryk’s Crossfire, the unspoken motivations for murder loom large

Dream a little dream: Hettie Macdonald’s quiet landmark Beautiful Thing offers a non-miserable look at marginalized Londoners

No fear, no die: Sally Potter’s classic New Queer Cinema adaptation of Virginia Woolf emphasizes freedom from everything—except the past

The new normal: Love, Simon plays to its imaginary audience—but also plays it safe

Terrors of the flesh: in addition to racebending, The Mask of Fu Manchu builds its horrors from homoerotic torture

Sitting on the sidelines: Paul Newman’s 1968 film about a small-town schoolteacher’s sexual awakening dared to make its lesbian character sympathetic

Toward the lights on Broadway: in the inaugural edition of this new biweekly column, thoughts on the confusions and challenges of growing up a gay movie-watcher and Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz