In his introduction to The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, which we discussed earlier this month, Vito Russo name-checks several LGBTQ directors from Hollywood's early days: Jean Vigo, Dorothy Arzner, F.W. Murnau, James Whale, Edmund Goulding, Mitchell Leisen, Sergei Eisenstein and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Back in 2013, we discussed Gods and Monsters, Christopher Bram's novel about Whale that was later filmed (I highly recommend both versions of the story). And in a November 2025 post here, I noted the 50th anniversary of Pasolini's murder by referencing an essay about the director's legacy by Olivia Laing, whose essay collection, The Lonely City, we read in 2020.
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