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It was supposed to be easy. Come for the spectacular imagery — a shot of three trans women using urinals wearing skirts is immortal — and stay for the bloody Oedipus twist. In any case, Hollywood has occasionally picked up on the queer-gangster link, telling stories about some of cinema’s most seductive bad boys who also happen to fall for other boys.

This experimental Japanese film entwines documentary with a time-jumping fictional narrative of Eddie and her fellow gender-non-conforming people working at a gay bar in Tokyo. The film was a box-office disaster and critically dismissed.

Dog Day Afternoon showcases the staggering barriers in accessing gender-affirming care. He followed that up with the sensational Les Diaboliquesanother master class of unbearable tension. What first feels like a straightforward bank robbery with typical masculine machismo reveals itself as something more unique and, importantly, queer: Sonny has organized the robbery to get his lover, Leon, gender-reassignment surgery.

But like many great heist movies, things prove vastly more complicated. Female Trouble is raunchy, disgusting, and imminently watchable — right until its electrifying conclusion. This madcap adventure finds Sylvia Scarlett Katharine Hepburn dressing in drag and becoming Sylvester Scarlett to avoid the police and keep up a life of crime with her con-man father.

Surprisingly, the sensually sapphic sequence of Zaleska seducing Lili Nan Grey made it past censors. The only way Sonny sees a way to get his partner the surgery they require is to turn to crime.

A ruthless hitman for the 18th Street gang serves his sentence in a Salvadoran evangelical prison, where he is guilty not only of his crimes, but of an unforgivable sin under God and gang: being gay. Barrett Dirk Bogarde manipulates his way into the home of Tony James Foxwhere he works as his dutiful and devoted servant, before scamming him and revealing his true intentions.

With activism comes resistance and fighting back against the unjust. Jealous of Johnny, Charn orders him to kill Paul. Watching Hepburn prance around as Sylvester, kissing women, committing crimes, and remaining in drag far longer than her character has to be, is one of the great pleasures of queer film-going.

While Brandon and Phillip are gay in the play Rope is based on, the film or rather, the Hays Code prevented that from being possible onscreen in the s. Well, Katharine, you can blame the gays. Frankly, most of this list could be films by John Waters.

The Pope of Trash outdid even his own limits of nastiness with Desperate Living. All she wants is to be famous, and the easiest way for Dawn to get notoriety is to follow a life of violent and increasingly shocking crimes. The plot is flimsy, but Gloria Halden is sensational as Countess Zaleska, the titular vampire longing to be free of her vampiric curse.

He's also in a gay relationship with Paul, a bartender from Charn's gay club. Queerness and activism have long been intertwined. Naturally, the pair come together with a solution — murder him. But the tongue-in-cheek phrase also has a surprisingly long-standing cinematic tradition — before characters could be explicitly gay onscreen, queer-coded icons paved the way through con-artistry and murder.

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