This sampling included here covers seventy years-starting with a movie theater pamphlet from the original US release of the 1931 German classic, Maedchen in Uniform (which is considered to be the first lesbian film ever made) up through the 2001 modern American butch/trans classic, By Hook or By Crook, on which I served as a consulting producer. When I was commissioned by Chronicle Books to create that volume, I hired a museum photographer to shoot large-format rostrum shot transparencies of the full-size posters in my collection those transparencies and their corresponding digital files are now all part of the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection, along with a significant number of the actual posters. These are just a few of my favorite items from my 2005 soft-cover coffee table tome, The Queer Movie Poster Book. The following selection of thirty+ LGBTQ movie posters offers a vibrant snapshot overview of the evolution of LGBTQ movie marketing history.
