Research

Stereotypical gay characters

• Clueless-  When Cher Horowitz realises that her crush, Christian, is “a disco-dancing, Oscar Wilde-reading, Streisand ticket-holding friend of Dorothy,” his station in life immediately changes from sex object to the old, reliable gay best friend.
• I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry- Heterosexual actors relying on stereotypes to play gay characters. The characters they play are also straight pretending to be gay (comedic stereotyping).
• In and Out- Speaking of stereotypes, this little comedy relied on the notion that one’s level of femininity presupposed one’s sexuality, and, of course, it incorporated the long, unsettling kiss between Kevin Kline and Tom Selleck for awkward laughs. 

The effects of gay stereotypes

https://kiracurtis.wordpress.com/the-effects-of-the-gay-stereotype-in-current-american-film/

"In the 1920’s, when film was just a budding media, homosexuality was surprisingly common in movies but only in a comic form."

"comedic portrayal by such famous actors as Charlie Chapman was accepted and even encouraged. In films such as Wanderer of the West (1927) and The Soilers (1923), audiences laughed at the juxtaposition of an effeminate male character to the classic, tough cowboys of the West"