Hollywood has always been queer! But until 1968, a conservative production code prohibited the open portrayal of gays and lesbians on screen. Nevertheless, creative filmmakers managed to bring gay and lesbian desire to the screen time and again. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman look back at 100 years of film history and reconstruct the signs, motifs, subtexts and stereotypes of queer Hollywood cinema based on Vito Russo's classic non-fiction book of the same name.