How Has Hollywood (Mis)Represented Homosexuality?

Trailers from mainstream movies from the 1960s and 1970s inspire an interactive investigation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender characters as depicted by Hollywood.

Titles include Myra Breckinridge, Victim, Something For Everyone, and The Killing of Sister George, among others. Selected from Jenni Olson’s compilation “Homo Promos,” these trailers — color and black & white — are comic and cringeworthy, sometimes in equal measure.

Victim poster

Titles include Myra Breckinridge, Victim, Something For Everyone, and The Killing of Sister George, among others. Selected from Jenni Olson’s compilation “Homo Promos,” these trailers — color and black & white — are comic and cringeworthy, sometimes in equal measure.

The Killing of Sister George

How did Hollywood’s representation of queer life affect your understanding of your own or others’ sexuality? Do you have a favorite — or traumatic– memory of these films? When is the first — or last — time you saw any of them?