Screened Out

Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall

by Richard Barrios

2002 400 pages eng

"Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies.". "Screened Out is a look at sexuality in the Great Age of Movie-making. Spanning popular American cinema f…