LGBTQ LC Subject Headings: 5. Film, Theatre, and the Performing Arts

African American gay actors
450: Afro-American gay actors
450: Gay actors, African American
450: Gay Afro-American actors
550: Gay actors–United States
670: Hennepin |b (Gay Afro-American actors)

African American lesbians in motion pictures
450: N/A
550: Motion pictures
670: Work cat.: GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2009: |b v. 15, no. 4, p. 615 (DeClue, Jennifer. Queer Mother of Color)

Bisexuality in motion pictures
450: N/A
550: Motion pictures
670: Work cat.: 96-25868: Bisexual characters in film, 1996.

Butch and femme (Lesbian culture) in motion pictures
450: N/A
550: Motion pictures
670: Work cat.: 2007014053: Keeling, K. The witch’s flight : the cinematic, the Black femme, and the image of common sense, 2007: |b table of contents (“What’s up with that? She don’t talk?” : Set It Off’s Black lesbian butch-femme — Reflections on the Black femme’s role in the (re)production of cinematic reality : the case of Eve’s Bayou)

Female impersonators in motion pictures
450: N/A
550: Motion pictures
667-68X: N/A

Gay actors
450: N/A
550: Actors
670: Work cat.: 96-20453: Hollywood gays, c1996.

Gay and lesbian film festivals
450: Gay film festivals
450: Lesbian and gay film festivals
550: Film festivals
550: Gays–Social life and customs
670: Work cat.: The 4th Annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 1999.
670: Google search, Aug. 6, 2001 |b (Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival; San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival; Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival; Boulder Gay & Lesbian Film Festival; Toronto Lesbian + Gay Film + Video Festival; Gay Film Festival Slovakia; Portland Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Film Festival; Melbourne Queer Film Festival)

Gay choirs
450:
Gay choruses
550: Choirs (Music)
670: Work cat.: GALA Choruses. Festival (2008 : Miami, Fla.). Logo and Comcast present Festival 2008 Miami, 2008: |b pp. 10-17 (Miami Gay Men’s Chorus; New Orleans Gay Men’s Chorus; Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington; Seattle Women’s Chorus; New Mexico Women’s Chorus; River City Mixed Chorus; Gloria, Dublin’s Lesbian & Gay Choir; Rainbow Women’s Chorus; San Diego Women’s Chorus; Seattle Men’s Chorus; Youth Pride Chorus; Southwest Florida Gay and Lesbian Chorus; Rainbow Chorale of Delaware; Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco) p. 256 (GLBT choruses)
670: GALA Choruses web site, Mar. 2, 2010: |b home page (GLBT choruses) about GALA Choruses (GLBT and GLBT-allied choruses) history (1975 – Anna Crusis Women’s Choir formed in Philadelphia; 1977 – The Gotham Male Chorus formed in December, specializing in Gregorian chant and Renaissance music; in 1979, women joined the chorus for the first time, and the name was changed to Stonewall Chorale, the nation’s first lesbian and gay chorus; 1978 – San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus was established, the first chorus to include the word “gay” in its name)

Gay conductors (Music)
450: N/A
550: Conductors (Music)
670: Work cat.: Women and music, 2009: |b v. 13, p. 24 (Hubbs, Nadine. Bernstein, Homophobia, Historiography)

Gay dramatists
450: N/A
550: Dramatists
667-68X: N/A

Gay erotic drama
455: Homoerotic drama
555: Erotic drama
670: 670: LCSH, Oct. 20, 2014 |b (Gay erotic drama. UF Homoerotic drama. BT Erotic drama; Gay erotic literature)

Gay erotic drama, American
450: American gay erotic drama
550: Erotic drama, American
550: Gay erotic literature, American
670: Work cat.: Chesley, R. Hard plays/stiff parts : the homoerotic plays of Robert Chesley, c1990.

Gay erotic films
450: N/A
555: Erotic films
670: LCSH, July 2, 2007: |b (hdg.: Gay erotic films)
675: Films by genre, c1993; |a Moving image genre form guide online, July 2, 2007.

Gay figure skaters
400: N/A
550: Figure skaters
670: Work cat.: Weir, J. Welcome to my world, c2011: |b p. 235 (Being gay is not a choice. I was born gay just as I was born white and male)
670: Galindo, R. Icebreaker: the autobiography of Rudy Galindo, c1997.
670: Wikipedia, Jan. 12, 2011: |b List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender sportspeople (Includes list of gay figure skaters and figure skating choreographers)

Gay man-heterosexual woman relationships in motion pictures
450: Heterosexual woman-gay man relationships in motion pictures
550: Motion pictures
670: Work cat.: Pillion, O.L. On objects and affections : contemporary representations of the gay man/straight woman dyad in popular film and television, 2000.

Gay men in motion pictures
450: N/A
550: Motion pictures
670: Work cat.: GLQ, 2003: |b v. 9, no. 1-2, p. 79 (McRuer, Robert. As Good As It Gets: Queer Theory and Critical Disability)
680: Here are entered works on the portrayal of gay men in motion pictures.

Gay motion picture actors and actresses
450: N/A
550: Gay actors
550: Motion picture actors and actresses
670: Work cat.: 2001017984: Mann, W.J. Behind the scenes, between the lines, 2001.

Gay motion picture producers and directors
450: N/A
550: Motion picture producers and directors
670: Work cat.: Gatiss, M. James Whale–a biography, or, The would-be gentleman, 1955: |b p. vii (missed in all the estab. research on Whale was ack. of his sexuality a fundamental fact which was mutually indivisible from his life and art)

Gay musicians
450: N/A
550: Musicians
670: Work cat.: 91-70465: Hadleigh, B. The vinyl closet, c1991.

Gay musicologists
450: N/A
550: Musicologists
670: Work cat: 2016017738: Cheng, W., Just vibrations, 2016 |b preface (Will Cheng’s Just Vibrations holds a mirror up to musicology and other humanities disciplines, inviting scholars who focus on the arts to take stock. As a young gay man, he never had to fight those tawdry battles over gender and sexuality that wrenched the field in the 1990s)

Gay pornographic films
450: Gay porn films
450: Gay sex films
550: Gay pornography
550: Pornographic films
670: Work cat.: Bijou Video Sales. Bijou Video : the complete reference guide of gay adult films, c1993.
670: Escoffier, J. Bigger than life : the history of gay porn cinema from beefcake to hardcore, c2009.
670: Wikipedia, Mar. 3, 2011: |b List of male performers in gay porn films (Gay pornographic films trace their roots to the Athletic Model Guild, founded in Los Angeles in 1945, which produced photographs and still images later turned into films and porn loops. The modern roots of films can be traced to the early 1970s where movies showed in New York theaters.)
670: GLBTQ : an encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & queer culture, via WWW, Mar. 3, 2011: |b Pornographic Film and Video: Gay Male (Pornographic film and video have played an important role in gay male culture; as with straight pornography, gay male pornography can be divided into two categories, hardcore and softcore; gay male film and video pornography; gay pornographic films; gay male pornographic films; gay video; gay video porn; Before The Boys in the Sand, filmed images of same-sex activity were limited to a few examples in stag films (some dating to early in the twentieth century))
670: OCLC, Mar. 3, 2011 |b (titles: Gay pornographic videos; Adam gay video directory; Adam Film World … directory gay adult video; Covers of gay male pornographic videos; Gay adult video star directory; Gay male pornographic films; Porn brochures collection : archive of brochures advertising sex-oriented gay male videos; Atkol comprehensive guide to adult male videos; The best of gay adult video 2000; The blue guide to adult male films & stars; The sticky remote pocket gay video guide; Gay video : a guide to erotica; Superstars : gay adult video guide; Al’s male video guide; The x-rated gay video guide; Gay porn : le film porno gay; One-handed histories : the eroto-politics of gay male video pornography; The universe of gay video pornography)

Gay pornography
450: Gay male pornography
550: Pornography
550: Gay erotica
670: Work cat.: 2004304604: Kendall, C.N. Gay male pornography, c2004.
670: Tziallas, E. “Too dark, too hairy, too much!” : representations of Arab men and “Arabness” in contemporary gay male pornography, 2009.
670: Wikipedia, Jan. 28, 2011: |b Gay pornography (Gay pornography; the representation of sexual intercourse between men with the primary goal of sexual arousal in its audience; nude male pornographic magazines; gay pornogrophic films; gay male pornography; gay porn)
670: GLBTQ: an encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & queer culture, via WWW, Jan. 28, 2011: |b Pornographic Film and Video: Gay Male (gay pornography; gay porn; gay male porn; as with straight pornography, gay male pornography can be divided into two categories, hardcore and softcore; gay male pornography in literature and still images has a long history)

Gay singers
450: N/A
550: Singers
670: Work cat.: Theo Tams, c2009.
670: OCLC, May 3, 2010 |b (gay and lesbian singers)
670: An interview with Cazwell, gay rapper and singer, via WWW, May 3, 2010.

Gay skinheads in motion pictures
450: N/A
550: Motion pictures
670: Work cat.: Da Silva, Jose. Fault lines : queer skinheads and gay male subjectivity in the film praxis of Bruce LaBruce, 2004.

Gay song festivals
450: N/A
550: Song festivals
670: Work cat.: GALA Choruses. Festival (2008 : Miami, Fla.). Logo and Comcast present Festival 2008 Miami, 2008: |b spine (GALA Choruses Festival)
670: GALA Choruses website, Mar. 2, 2010: |b events (GALA Choruses produces workshops, conferences and a quadrennial Festival; Festival 2012 Denver; Out and Loud Choral Festival; Sister Singers 2010 Festival; Gay song festivals; Lesbian song festivals)

Gay theater
450: N/A
550: Theater
670: Work cat.: 82-12099: Hall, R.W. Three plays for a gay theater & three essays, c1983.
670: Hennepin |b (gay theater)

Gay theatrical producers and directors
450: Gay theatrical directors
550: Theatrical producers and directors
670: Work cat.: 2004020338: The gay and lesbian theatrical legacy, 2005.

Gay-themed films of the German silent era
450: N/A
550: N/A
670: Different from the others, c2004.

Gays and the performing arts
450: Performing arts and gays
550: Performing arts
670: Work cat.: GLQ, 2003: |b v. 9, no. 1-2, p. 25 (Sandahl, Carrie. Queering the Crip or Cripping the Queer? : Intersections of Queer and Crip Identities in Solo Autobiographical Performance)

Gender identity in dance
450: N/A
550: Dance
670: Work cat.: 2002452014: Tortajada, M. Danza y género, 2001.

Gender identity in motion pictures
450: N/A
550: Motion pictures
670: Work cat.: College literature, 2004: |b v. 31, no. 3, p. 1 (Schiavi, M.R. A “girlboy’s” own story : non-masculine narrativity in Ma vie en rose)

Gender identity in the theater
450: N/A
550: Theater
670: Work cat.: 2007014742: Shakespeare re-dressed, 2007.

Glam rock music
450: Gay rock music
450: Glitter rock music
450: Shock rock music
450: Theater rock music (Glam rock)
550: Rock music
670: Work cat.: 2010004677: Lenig, S. The twisted tale of glam rock, c2010 |b (glam rock; also known as theatre [sic] rock, glitter rock, shock rock, gay rock)
670: Grove music online, Feb. 2, 2010 |b (glam rock; highly theatrical mode of presentation of late-1970’s rock that included overtly feminine makeup, cross dressing, androgyny; also called glitter rock)

Glam rock musicians
450: N/A
550: Rock musicians
670: Work cat.: 2010004677: Lenig, S. The twisted tale of glam rock, c2010.

Homophobia in motion pictures
450: N/A
550: BT Motion pictures
670: Work cat: 2018366481: Meyer-Plantureux, C. Antisémitisme et homophobie, 2019: |b (book about homophobia in theater and motion pictures in France)

Homosexuality and dance
450: Dance and homosexuality
550: Dance
670: Work cat.: 00010661: Dancing desires, 2000.

Homosexuality and motion pictures
450: Motion pictures and homosexuality
550: Motion pictures
670: Work cat.: 98-37161: Out takes, 1999.

Homosexuality and the arts
450: Arts and homosexuality
550: N/A
670: Work cat.: 2010017792: Art and homosexuality, 2011

Homosexuality and theater
450: Theater and homosexuality
550: Theater
670: Work cat.: 2007014742: Shakespeare re-dressed, 2007.

Homosexuality in dance
450: N/A
550: Dance
670: Work cat.: 00010661: Dancing desires, 2000.

Homosexuality in motion pictures
450: N/A
550: Motion pictures
667-68X: N/A

Homosexuality in opera
450: N/A
550: Opera
670: Work cat.: 98148574: Wilcox, M. Benjamin Britten’s operas, 1997.
680: Here are entered works about the representation or depiction of homosexuality in operatic works.

Homosexuality in the theatre
450: N/A
550: Theatre
670: Work cat.: Theatre journal, 2004: |b v. 56, no. 3, p. 373 (Medeiros, C. Queering Homoerotic Desire, Silence, and Violence in Zeno Wilde’s Blue Jeans: A Performance-Sensitive Reading for the Twenty-first Century)

Lesbian actresses
450: N/A
550: Actresses
670: Hennepin |b (Lesbian actresses)
681: Notes under |a Lesbians in motion pictures; Lesbians in the motion picture industry

Lesbian bars in motion pictures
450: N/A
550: Motion pictures
670: Work cat.: 2001005957: The girls in the back room, 2001.

Lesbian composers
450: N/A
550: Gay composers
550: Women composers
670: Work cat.: Lesbian American composers, 1998

Lesbian dramatists
450: N/A
550: Gay dramatists
550: Women dramatists
670: Work cat.: Furtado, K. Gay and lesbian American plays, 1993.

Lesbian erotic films
450: N/A
550: Gay erotic films
550: Lesbian erotica
670: Work cat.: Velvet Light Trap, 2007: |b no. 59, p. 42 (Rhyne, Ragan. Hard-core Shopping: Educating Consumption in SIR Video Production’s Lesbian Porn)

Lesbian motion picture producers and directors
450: N/A
550: Gay motion picture producers and directors
550: Women motion picture producers and directors
670: Work cat.: Lavender limelight, c1997: |b container (lesbian directors)

Lesbian musicians
450: N/A
550: Gay musicians
550: Women musicians
670: Work cat.: Fleming, L. Hot licks : lesbian musicians of note, 199-: |b CIP.

Lesbian theater
450: N/A
550: Gay theater
670: Work cat.: Furtado, K. Gay and lesbian American plays, 1993.

Lesbian vampires in motion pictures
450: N/A
550: Motion pictures
670: Work cat.: Weiss, A. Vampires and violets, 1992.

Lesbianism in motion pictures
450: N/A
550: Motion pictures
670: Work cat.: Hetze, S. Happy-End für wen? : Kino und lesbische Frauen … 1986.

Lesbianism in opera
450: N/A
550: Opera
670: Work cat.: 95-19594: En travesti, 1995.

Lesbians and musicals
450: Musicals and lesbians
550: Musicals
670: Work cat.: 2001008273: Wolf, S.E. A problem like Maria, c2002.

Lesbians in motion pictures
450: N/A
550: Motion pictures
670: Work cat.: Lexikon lesbischer Frauen im Film, c2000.
680: Here are entered works on the portrayal of lesbians in motion pictures. Works on all aspects of lesbian involvement in motion pictures are entered under |a Lesbians in the motion picture industry. |i Works on specific aspects of lesbian involvement are entered under the specific subject, e.g. |a Lesbian actresses.
681: Note under |a Lesbians in the motion picture industry

Lesbians in the motion picture industry
450: N/A
550: Motion picture industry
680: Here are entered works on all aspects of lesbian involvement in motion pictures. Works on the portrayal of lesbians in motion pictures are entered under |a Lesbians in motion pictures. |i Works on specific aspects of lesbian involvement are entered under the specific subject, e.g. |a Lesbian actresses.
681: Note under |a Lesbians in motion pictures

Lesbians in the performing arts
450: N/A
550: Performing arts
670: Work cat.: 2009051466: Gutierrez, L.G. Performing Mexicanidad, 2010.

Male homosexuality in motion pictures
450: Homosexuality, Male, in motion pictures
550: Motion pictures
670: Work cat.: Suen, P. Filming gay representations : male homosexuality in Hong Kong and Taiwanese cinema, 2000.

Male homosexuality in music
450: Homosexuality, Male, in music
550: Music
670: Work cat.: 94075002: Studer, W. Rock on the wild side : gay male images in popular music of the rock era, 1994.

Motion pictures and gay men
450: Gay men and motion pictures
550: Gay men
670: Work cat.: 00028829: Spectacular passions, 2000.

Music by gay composers
450: Gay composers’ music
550: Music
670: Work cat.: Gay American composers, 1996.
680: Here are entered collections of musical works by gay people. Collections limited to musical works by lesbian composers are entered under |a Music by lesbian composers.

Music by lesbian composers
450: Lesbian composers’ music
550: Music
670: Work cat: Lesbian American composers [SR] p1998.
670: OCLC, Feb. 20, 2002 |b (ti: A catalogue of musical works by SGLC members; Society of Gay and Lesbian Composers)
680: Here are entered collections of musical works by lesbians.
681: Note under |a Music by gay composers

Sexual minorities in motion pictures
450: N/A
550: Motion pictures
670: Work cat.: June, J.L. Is it queer enough?, 2003: |b p. 5 (queer films) p. 13 (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender themed films and video; gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender films; LGBT characters in film) p. 15 (lgbtq film) p. 16 (the requirements for consideration of work in relation to lgbtq content, characters, and filmmaker orientation; festivals require the work to have specifically lgbtq content and characters to be considered for exhibition)

Transgender people in motion pictures
450: N/A
550: Motion pictures
680: Here are entered works on the portrayal of transgender people in motion pictures.

Transgender musicians
450: N/A
550: Musicians
670: Work cat.: Riot acts [VR] 2009: |b title screen (Riot acts : flaunting gender deviance in music performance) accompanying information sheet (Riot acts is a ’trans-fabulous’ rockumentary representing the multi-dimensional lives of transgender and gender variant musicians.)

Transgender singers
450: N/A
550: Singers
670: Work cat.: 2018000653: Jackson Hearns, L., The singing teacher’s guide to transgender voices, 2018.

Transsexuals in motion pictures
450: N/A
550: Motion pictures
670: Work cat.: 2004018151: In a queer time and place, 2004.
680: Here are entered works on the portrayal of transsexuals in motion pictures.

Transvestism in motion pictures
450: N/A
550: Motion pictures
670: Work cat.: 2006043198: Transgender on screen, 2006.

Note: These terms reflect LC Authorities as it appeared on 17 Oct 2019.