Happy & Gay

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Title

Happy & Gay

Description

Note: This film contains racist and anti-Semitic imagery.

A revisionist imagining of what an explicitly queer cartoon could have looked like in the 1930s.

This work aims to capture the feel of a 1930s cartoon with its rubber hose animation, and referencing queer coded characters that actually appeared in 1930s shorts (see Soda Squirt).

Source

Director: Lorelei Pepi
Year: 2014
Country: United States
Gender and Sexuality: Gay, gender creative, lesbian, queer, transgender
Animation Style: Digital
Genre: Comedy, fantasy
Type: Explicit, short

Can currently be watched on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/boysonfilm17/246323198

Files

Citation

“Happy & Gay,” Queer Animation, accessed June 16, 2025, https://queeranimation.omeka.net/items/show/141.