Gay villain

1964: The homosexual villain

‘It is the purpose of this article to try and give the ‘normal’ person some plan of the ways and habits of those individuals who do not conform to the regular moral code of this society’.

With these words a lesbian writes for the Monash Uni student paper in 1964. In doing so, this person, although remaining anonymous, is the first homosexual to openly confer his sexuality in a public forum.

Reflecting a require – ‘a desperate need’ – to bring the subject out into the open, the author reports on Kinsey’s findings regarding the frequency of queer contact among adult men, surveys the history of Christian oppression and comments on Freud’s theories.

Reading this today is difficult in many ways – the pleading, the desperate justifications grate on us. His admission that given a choice he would chose heterosexuality – as, he asserts, would the forty-odd homosexuals that he has got to know in his five short months at Monash – gives the whole piece an air of tragedy.

But to focus on this would be to ignore the importance of this document. It is almost certainly the first time that a homosexual has spoken at any length to a heterosexua

Sissy Villain

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Evil never looked so fabulous.

"Well, aren't we fierce? Guards, castrate him."

— Ard, Heavy Metal

The Sissy Villain, as his mention would suggest, is a man whose heart is as twisted as his wrist is limp.

Due to social stigmas against male femininity and "unmanliness", there's a strong tendency in fiction to assign effeminate traits to villains: flamboyant mannerisms, delicate voices, light builds, prissiness, femininely pretty looks, grandiloquentspeeches, giggling, love for poetry and opera, impeccable fashion instinct (not always in men's clothing), fondness for Persian cats, etc. Evil, it seems, is swishier than a silk skirt.

Frequently, The Hero pitted against the Sissy Villain is either a manly guy (any feminine traits he has are merely there to underscore his masculinity) or a tomboy, and making the villain "unmasculine" is intended to stress this. After all, there's nothing manlier than beating up a sissy. It doesn't even matter that the limp-wristed villain is powerful, he looks frail and homosexual and that's what matters.

The Sissy Villain is probably the second most common portrayal of Camp

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BE Lgbtq+, DO CRIME and co-curator Shayna Maci Warner return for another helping of cinematic queer criminals and baddies.

This moment around, we switch our focus to some of our favorite villains in the queer cinema canon. Side-stepping the problematic queer villains (for the most part), we analyze the delicious, devious, and dangerous characters that we detest to love, and love to hate.

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Basic Trope: The villain is gay, and his sexuality motivates a lot of his wicked behavior.

  • Straight: A gay villain with uncomfortable, one-sided sexually predatory obsession with the hero.
  • Exaggerated:
    • All and only evil characters are same-sex attracted, and they all create unwelcome advances to any straight guy they meet.
    • You can tell any person's moral standing from where they are on the Kinsey Scale.
  • Downplayed:
  • Justified:
    • The story takes place in a Crapsack WorldAfter the End where everyone has to be completely depraved just to survive.
    • Existence gay doesn't make characters any less susceptible to The Dark Side.
    • The villain used to be a good person, but when he came out as Gay everyone discriminated against him and at one point tried to lynch him. Eventually he snapped, declared Then Grant Me Be Evil, and made a Face–Heel Rotate. Being gay didn't directly make him evil, but the anti-homosexuality discrimination he faced was the Freudian Excuse that drove him to the dark side.
  • Inverted:
  • Gender-Inverted: Psycho Lesbian
  • Subverted:
    • The Sissy Villain is introduced... as is hisDark Mistress.
    • The villain was only pretending to be
      gay villain

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      LGBT+ History Month is a month-long observance of womxn loving womxn, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements. It is celebrated in the UK every February with a different theme chosen each year ranging from highlighting specific individuals or communities, to addressing current issues and challenges facing the Gay community. 


      The theme for 2023 LGBT+ History Month is "Behind the Lens", and is an opportunity to learn more about the impact of LGBT+ people and their representation in the fields of photography, fashion, TV, and film.


      One such influence on how LGBT+ people were represented in movie was the Motion Picture Production Code, or Hays Code.


      What is the hays code?

      The Hays Code, was a set of guidelines established in 1930 to rule the content of films produced in the United States. The code was in effect until 1968, and it had a significant impact on the way in which LGBTQ+ characters were portrayed on screen.


      One of the key aspects of the Hays Code was its strict prohibition of any depiction of “sexual perversion” in films, and though not explicitly mentioned, thi