Queer final

The document summarizes how gays and lesbians have been depicted in films from the 1920s to present. Early films often portrayed them as pedophiles, villains or with disguised sexuality. Key findings were that films like Gigli sexualized lesbians and Rope portrayed the main characters with disguised sexuality as villains. The Celluloid Closet found that Hollywood subtly got around censorship rules by writing between the lines and being subtle enough. There is a need for lesbian film criticism given their continued negative portrayals that serve male fantasies, as seen in Basic Instinct.