Behind the screen : how gays and lesbians shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969

The first full accouning of the role of gays and lesbians in Hollywood argues that homosexuals were in fact a protected class in the film industry who had considerable power to shape the art and business of movie-making. Great gods: the first gay idols, 1910-1925 -- Designing men: sets, costumes, and the gay-straight split, 1916-1933 -- Girls with imagination: Hollywood's first lesbians, 1919-1935 -- Sex without sin: the gay subculture of early Hollywood, 1922-1935 -- Wild pansies: Hollywood's sissies and the production-code clampdown, 1930-1941 -- Auteur theories: the gay directors and producers of Hollywood's golden age, 1935-1955 -- Queer work: the "behind-the-scenes queens" of the Hollywood studios, 1935-1955 -- War spirit: the gay awakening during World War II and the post-war years, 1941-1955 -- Pinkos, commies, queers: Hollywood's gays and the Cold-War inquisitions, 1945-1960 -- The bold ones: the stonewall generation and the end of the studio era, 1953-1969.