‘Film capitalizes on our most primary means of communication, employing visual images that move us deeply… Each decade’s cultural anxiety and hope about gender is coded frame by frame in the celluloid representations of gender nonconformists’ (Mackenzie 1999, 206-7). When the flamboyant protagonists of Stephan Elliott’s acclaimed film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the … Continue reading Before Priscilla: Male-to-Female Transgender in Australian Cinema until the 1990s – Joanna McIntyre