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Ce livre s'impose tel un véritable devoir de mémoire envers les pionniers du cinéma de fiction LGBTQ+ québécois avec ce premier et courageux aveu queer de Claude Jutra dans À tout prendre ainsi que la mise en scène par le duo Brassard-Tremblay dans Il était une fois dans l'Est d'une faune colorée s'affirmant dans un quartier modeste de Montréal.

Maurice (1987), a British film based on the novel by E.M. Forster, follows an Edwardian man's journey to self-acceptance as someone who loves and desires men. Rebutting its critical reception, this volume champions the film as a sympathetic adaptation, making a case for its underappreciated positive depiction of gay love.

Released in 1919, Anders als die Andern is a remarkable artefact of the pre-Stonewall homosexual rights movement of early-twentieth-century Germany. Ervin Malakaj shows how the film's "mournful cinema" is key to its endurance, fostering connection through emotions and acting as a springboard to engage in an intergenerational queer struggle.

A film that transcends time, Sally Potter's Orlando (1992) follows its titular character through nearly four hundred years of British history. Orlando starts life as a young man in the 1600s and then, mid-film, becomes a woman in the 1800s. Russell Sheaffer meticulously charts the distinct shift from lesbian feminist text to queer film classic.