In the decades before Stonewall, despite various forms of oppression, queer cinema proliferated in the United States. In the 1940s and ‘50s, following from Jean Cocteau, queer filmmakers were entranced with classical mythology and the “geography of the body.” Then, following from Andy Warhol and Jack Smith, a younger generation built on this foundation, entwining mythology with camp, old Hollywood, psychedelics, and drag. On February 12, 2026, at the Plaza Theatre, Film Love illuminates this through-line with a program of…