{"podcast":{"title":"Forgotten Hollywood","slug":"forgotten-hollywood-2166799","podcast_index_feed_id":2166799,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4763854/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/forgotten-hollywood--4763854","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/ec8083e4a4f7698c370da245ef50e1bf.jpg","author":"JLJ Media","episode_count":452,"summary":"Producer/Creator/Host Doug Hess takes you on a journey back in time and shares with you pieces. of Hollywood you may or may not have known about!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T20:20:09.230544+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-hollywood-2166799"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 438- 1st Film with Gay Characters","slug":"episode-438-1st-film-with-gay-characters","published_at":"2026-06-22T06:45:32+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-hollywood-2166799/episode-438-1st-film-with-gay-characters","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-hollywood-2166799","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-438-1st-film-with-gay-characters--72626856","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72626856/fh_episode_438_st_film_with_gay_characters.mp3","summary":"For Pride Month June 2026, James Lott JR guest stars. The film most often considered the first major film to feature an explicitly gay character/storyline is Different from the Others (Anders als die Andern), a 1919 German silent film. It starred Conrad Veidt as a gay violinist whose relationship with a male student leads to blackmail and tragedy. It was also made with sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld and is often called the first gay-rights film in history. For American/Hollywood film, it gets more complicated because gay characters were often coded for decades because of censorship. A major milestone is The Boys in the Band from 1970, one of the first mainstream American films to openly focus on gay male characters and gay life.","meta_description":"For Pride Month June 2026, James Lott JR guest stars. The film most often considered the first major film to feature an explicitly gay character/storyline…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":630,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/forgotten-hollywood-2166799/episodes/episode-438-1st-film-with-gay-characters/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-hollywood-2166799/episode-438-1st-film-with-gay-characters.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}