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Watching pre-Golden Age films really shows how much the Hays Code fucked with lgbt representation for the medium.
There was a lot more queer representation—although still heavily stereotyped—that got pushed back because the US government claimed it could be used for “evil”. And thus the queer villain became a new trope.
Not even American film, European film had much more examples of positive representation that wasn’t as heavily stereotyped. That also changed at some point.
It’s for this reason that I consider the early silent era to be the true Golden Age of Film. You had representation that we still haven’t seen to this day in some cases like an East Asian man being a sex symbol. The Golden Age is only considered the Golden Age because it’s when the major studios benefitted the most. They had more control over the industry and its actors than they ever would.
Yea there were improvements made during the Golden Age as well but I feel the silent era had many as well while also experimenting more than the largely safe content Hollywood churned out during the golden age.