Gay villain

Robert Walker is a psychotic gay socialite who convinces Farley Granger's tennis pro to swap murders. Hitch Knows Best. For better or worse, these childhood TV & movie villains made being bad look oh-so-fabulous.

Throughout the '30s, '40s and '50s, the public perception of gays and lesbians was that they were sick and disturbed -- and therefore dangerous. Damaging Stereotype. Peter Lorre made a career out of playing sleazy reprobates.

Here he's at his most overtly effeminate, causing both Mary Astor and Humphrey Bogart to slap a bitch. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Film history is littered with queer villains. As more varied images of gay characters have appeared on film, some queer villains have become more complex.

In this scene, she all but sniffs the late woman's lingerie. Judith Anderson plays the archetypal evil housekeeper, who is obsessed with the late Mrs. De Winter -- to the dismay of Joan Fontaine as the new Mrs. De Winter. Gay actor Anthony Perkins gives his most famous performance as the ultimate mama's boy in Hitchcock's grisly masterpiece.

Evil But Awesome. Yet glaringly offensive portrayals of LGBT villainy persist to this day. Pages in category "LGBTQ villains" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total. Yet many of these films created dangerous stereotypes that have taken years of activism from groups like GLAAD to overcome.

George Sanders earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar as the manipulative queen bitch theater critic, inspiring a generation of witty, evil, proto-gay villains. His penchant for cross-dressing comes from the true and much more grisly story of serial killer Ed Gein, on which the film is partly based.

No one handled this more deftly than director Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense and psychosexual anxiety -- who often cast closeted gay actors in gay-ish roles. This list may not reflect recent changes. LGBT movie villains have evolved over time -- for better and for worse.

Why Are Villains Often : Dive into the enchanting realm of Disney's Top 10 Gay Villains! From iconic classics to modern favorites, explore their complexity and cultural significance

See the scene here. Dangerous dandies, larcenous lesbians, pansy princes, and terrifying transvestites wreaked havoc on the silver screen long before sympathetic LGBT characters began to appear on film in the s. This stereotype of an effeminate villain seen four more times on this list taps into the viewer's homophobia -- making it especially gratifying to see them defeated by the more macho hero.

Four of his films are saluted here, which include complex characters that transcend sexual stereotypes. While overt references to homosexuality were long prohibited in film, skilled filmmakers created characters that displayed subtle yet clearly queer qualities.

Gay actor Clifton Webb is at his most bitchy and controlling as the evil queen who attempts to transform Gene Tierney's mysterious and titular Laura. Farley Granger and John Dall star in this fictional variation on the real-life Leopold and Loeb case -- a story of two upper-class gay guys who commit a murder just for kicks.