I will finish next week's lecture with the Jason Statham action flick The Transporter from 2002 as a clear indicator that gay culture is finally mainstream, and gay movie characters have finally reached the level of the incidental. Next week, I will talk about how the 1969 Stonewall riots sparked a new visibility for the gay community, and how that visibility spread into movies, in both positive and negative ways. This was a time of hiding and coding gay characters, and a time when homosexuality wasn't too often openly dealt with in the movies. In the first part of this lecture, I will trace gay characters through the 1920s all the way through the 1960s.
