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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Breath of a Nation]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[<p><span>Centered around prohibition enforcement, the aching desire for a drink and a soda fountain that is selling a little extra on the side.<br /><br />This short currently contains the oldest queer coded character in the database. When Silk Hat Harry’s Soda Fountain becomes a popular spot, one of the customers includes a queer coded character, as indicated by his thin physique, eyelashes, defined lips, flashy style, and posture. He originally entered due to his interest in a fruit sundae (a <span style="font-weight:400;">derogatory</span> reference to his queerness), but when he leaves, the treat has physically transformed him into a burly brute who soon destroys a lamppost.</span></p>]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:left;"><span><strong>Director: </strong><span class="prettify">Gregory La Cava</span></span><br /><span><strong>Year:</strong> 1919<br /><strong>Country:</strong> United States<br /></span><strong>Gender and Sexuality: </strong>Queer coded<br /><strong>Animation Style: </strong>Traditional<br /><span><strong>Genre:</strong> Comedy</span><br /><span><strong>Type:</strong> Implicit, short</span><br /><br />Can currently be watched on YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/Er5xCqaLsmY">https://youtu.be/Er5xCqaLsmY</a></p>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mary’s Little Lamb]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[<span>Mary's lamb wants to attend the last day of school with her; music and hijinks ensue. <br /><br />During the festivities, Percy, a named animated queer coded character (an incredibly rare instance from this period), performs a dance for his classmates, making it the earliest example of a named queer coded character in the database.</span>]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[<span><strong>Director: </strong>Ub Iwerks</span><br /><span><strong>Year:</strong> 1935<br /><strong>Country:</strong> United States<br /></span><strong>Gender and Sexuality: </strong>Queer coded<br /><strong>Animation Style: </strong>Traditional<br /><span><strong>Genre:</strong> Comedy, music(al)</span><br /><span><strong>Type:</strong> Implicit, short</span><br /><br />Can currently be watched on YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/kgfjvjyB1Aw">https://youtu.be/kgfjvjyB1Aw</a><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kgfjvjyB1Aw" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>]]></dcterms:source>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Krazy Kat tries to serenade his love interest, Ignaz, but does not succeed.<br /><br /><span>These characters originally appeared in the comic strip, </span></span>Krazy Kat created by cartoonist George Herriman. His credit in the opening titles was included for contractual reasons and he Herriman had no direct input on the short itself.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:400;"><span>This short currently features the oldest explicitly queer character in the database. As examined in <em>The New Yorker</em> article "</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-gender-fluidity-of-krazy-kat">The Gender Fluidity of Krazy Kat</a>" b<span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylinePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd jslZfG gnILss byline__preamble">y </span>Gabrielle Bellot, <span>Herriman described Krazy Kat's sex as follows: "'They have no sex. So that Kat can't be classified as either male or female.'"</span><br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Due to the lack of queer terminology from that period and Krazy Kat's fluctuating pronouns in the original comic strip, I will categorize Krazy Kat as androgynous and queer, and refer to them with they/them pronouns unless explicitly stated otherwise in a specific strip or short.</span></p>
<span><span style="font-weight:400;">For <em>Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing</em>, the </span><a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/s1229m00557"><span style="font-weight:400;">copyright description</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> archived by the Library of Congress gave masculine pronouns for Krazy Kat. I shall keep androgynous and queer to reflect Herriman’s perspective on Krazy Kat and how the audience would have interpreted the short, while also including gay and implicit to reflect the information obtained in the copyright description.</span><br /></span>]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[<strong>Animation:</strong> Leon Searle<br /><strong>Year:</strong> 1916<br /><span><strong>Country:</strong> United States</span> <br /><strong>Gender and Sexuality:</strong> Androgyny, queer <br /><strong>Animation Style:</strong> Traditional <br /><strong>Genre:</strong> Comedy <br /><strong>Type:</strong> Explicit, implicit, short<br /><br />Can currently be watched on YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/1xLV94EFR5k">https://youtu.be/1xLV94EFR5k</a><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1xLV94EFR5k" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>]]></dcterms:source>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Fable of the Jolly Rounders]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight:400;">A wife gets into a fight and kicks out her husband after he arrives home late and intoxicated. His friend decides they should play a trick on her, and the friend disguises himself as a woman. Although there is much ambiguity about how close these two men actually are, by the end, all is resolved between the husband and wife, and they kiss while their brood of progeny dance around them.</span></p>]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[<span><strong>Director: </strong>Paul Terry</span><br /><span><strong>Year:</strong> 1923<br /><strong>Country:</strong> United States<br /></span><strong>Gender and Sexuality: </strong>Gender creative, queer<br /><strong>Animation Style: </strong>Traditional<br /><span><strong>Genre:</strong> Comedy</span><br /><span><strong>Type:</strong> Implicit, short</span><br /><br />Can currently be watched on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_xSQCLVVu4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_xSQCLVVu4</a><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R_xSQCLVVu4?si=rLAIDk3YkcmbPxeo" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>]]></dcterms:source>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[El Terrible Toreador]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[<span><strong>Note: This film contains sexual violence.</strong><br /><br />A very loose burlesque adaptation of </span><em>Carmen</em><span>. <br /><br />In one scene during the bullfight, after the toreador punches the bull's behind several times, the bull transforms into an effeminate opponent and the two soon dance together.</span>]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[<span><strong>Director: </strong><span class="prettify">Walt Disney</span></span><br /><span><strong>Year:</strong> 1929<br /><strong>Country:</strong> United States<br /></span><strong>Gender and Sexuality: </strong>Queer coded<br /><strong>Animation Style: </strong>Traditional<br /><span><strong>Genre:</strong> Comedy</span><br /><span><strong>Type:</strong> Implicit, short</span><br /><br />Can currently be watched on YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/k59-RnBvxsQ">https://youtu.be/k59-RnBvxsQ</a><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k59-RnBvxsQ" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>]]></dcterms:source>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Flamingo Pride]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[<span>A straight flamingo is uninterested in attending a gay pride festival with his flamboyance and would rather woo a female stork.</span>]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[<span><strong>Director: </strong>Tomer Eshed</span><br /><span><strong>Year:</strong> 2011<br /><strong>Country:</strong> Germany<br /></span><strong>Gender and Sexuality: </strong>Gay<br /><strong>Animation Style: </strong>Digital<br /><span><strong>Genre:</strong> Comedy</span><br /><span><strong>Type:</strong> Explicit, short</span><br /><br />Can currently be watched on Vimeo or YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/vojEWV13BQc">https://youtu.be/vojEWV13BQc</a><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vojEWV13BQc" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>]]></dcterms:source>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Rick and Steve the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[<span><strong>Note: This film contains sexual content.</strong><br /><br />In their first episode, "Cum &amp; Quiche" Rick and Steve are hosting a get-together with their friends, but Dana and Kirsten have their own request in mind… let’s just say a turkey baster isn’t only useful for Thanksgiving.<br /><br />This brickfilm and the other three episodes gained quite the controversy and attention from The Lego Company (including sending a cease and desist) due to its explicit themes. When the shorts were later turned into an animated, stop motion show on Logo, <em>Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World</em> the designs were significantly changed. <br /><br />Additionally, it's a great short to watch while building an <a class="in-cell-link" href="https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/everyone-is-awesome-40516">Everyone Is Awesome</a> Lego pride set. </span>]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[<span><strong>Director: </strong><span class="prettify">Q. Allan Brocka</span></span><br /><span><strong>Year:</strong> 1999<br /><strong>Country:</strong> United States<br /></span><strong>Gender and Sexuality: </strong>Gay, gender creative, lesbian<br /><strong>Animation Style: </strong>Stop motion<br /><span><strong>Genre:</strong> Comedy</span><br /><span><strong>Type:</strong> Explicit, short</span><br /><br />Can currently be watched on YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/-drgaH_E2ak">https://youtu.be/-drgaH_E2ak</a><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-drgaH_E2ak" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>]]></dcterms:source>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Saint of Dry Creek]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[<span><span>The recently departed Patrick Haggerty of the trailblazing gay country music group <em>Lavender Country</em> recounts a memory to his daughter for StoryCorps. He recalls how, in his childhood in the 1950s, his father gave him advice about having pride in oneself.<br /><br />For people interested in learning more about Patrick Haggerty, I reccomend the documentary </span></span><a href="https://vimeo.com/186421525"><em>These C*cksucking Tears</em></a> (<span>Taberski, 2016</span>).]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[<span><strong>Director: </strong>Julie Zammarchi</span><br /><span><strong>Year:</strong> 2015<br /><strong>Country:</strong> United States<br /></span><strong>Gender and Sexuality: </strong>Gay, gender creative<br /><strong>Animation Style: </strong>Digital<br /><span><strong>Genre:</strong> Comedy, documentary</span><br /><span><strong>Type:</strong> Explicit, short</span><br /><br />Can currently be watched on Vimeo or YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/3wHjJUdN16k">https://youtu.be/3wHjJUdN16k</a><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3wHjJUdN16k" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>]]></dcterms:source>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Queer Duck: The Movie]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[<span>Like the original <em>Queer Duck</em> show, the film focuses on topical mid-2000s queer issues and features a mix of impersonated and real stars. RuPaul sings the show's theme, and the film includes voice acting from Bruce Vilanch, David Duchovny, and Conan O'Brien.<br /><br />On a personal note, this film was one of the first that sparked my interest in learning more about the history of queer animation. While I was an undergrad in college and searching for more films featuring Tim Curry, I stumbled upon this movie and immediately borrowed it from the library. It was the first animated film I had seen where multiple lead characters were explicitly queer, which made me even more curious about the overlooked history of queer representation in animated media.</span>]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[<span><strong>Director: </strong>Xeth Feinberg</span><br /><span><strong>Year:</strong> 2006<br /><strong>Country:</strong> United States<br /></span><strong>Gender and Sexuality:</strong> Bisexual, drag, gay, gender creative, lesbian, queer<br /><strong>Animation Style:<span> </span></strong><span>Digital</span><br /><span><strong>Genre:</strong> Comedy, music(al)</span><br /><span><strong>Type:</strong> Explicit, feature</span><br /><br />Can currently be watched on Amazon Prime or YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/H4S4D8LHm94">https://youtu.be/H4S4D8LHm94</a><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H4S4D8LHm94" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>]]></dcterms:source>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Me and The Matrix]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[<span>In anticipation of <em>The Matrix Resurrections</em> (Wachowski, 2021), the filmmaker and animator, Cressa Maeve Áine, reflects on her trans identity in relation to the<em> Matrix</em> franchise.</span>]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[<span><strong>Director: </strong>Cressa Maeve Áine</span><br /><span><strong>Year:</strong> 2021<br /><strong>Country:</strong> United States<br /></span><strong>Gender and Sexuality:</strong> Transgender<br /><strong>Animation Style:</strong> Digital, stop motion, traditional<br /><span><strong>Genre:</strong> Comedy, documentary</span><br /><span><strong>Type:</strong> Explicit, short</span><br /><br />Can currently be watched on YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/mZk9no85dI8">https://youtu.be/mZk9no85dI8</a><br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mZk9no85dI8" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>]]></dcterms:source>
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