# Gayest Scene in a Non-Gay Film

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 20, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gayest-scene-in-a-non-gay-film/586109 "2011-06-20T03:14:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gayest-scene-in-a-non-gay-film/586109/101 "2011-06-26T02:26:59Z")

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Not a gay scene, but a rather surprisingly lesbian scene in a movie from 1932, “The Sign of the Cross” by Cecil B. DeMille

> **[Sign of the Cross (disambiguation)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sign_of_the_Cross_(film))**
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> The sign of the cross is a ritual hand motion used by some Christians.
> Sign of the Cross may also refer to:

One character dances erotically around another, running her hands up and down the body of the other woman, who must stand still and submit to being humiliated. The movie was made pre-Hays Code, and later butchered in various forms before having all cut material restored in the 90’s.

Of course DeMille liked to throw in a lot of suggestiveness to his Biblical epics. But another thing that surprised me about this movie was that all the good guys and girls died, and none of the bad ones got their comeuppance. Quite the downer of a movie.

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**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gayest-scene-in-a-non-gay-film/586109/102 "2011-06-26T23:03:22Z")

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It wasn’t like Kirk/Spock slash was a new thing, but [this scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3yVzfns77Y) from ST:The Motion Picture sure gave it new, throbbing life.

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gayest-scene-in-a-non-gay-film/586109/103 "2011-06-27T09:05:14Z")

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> [@Tengu](#):
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> The scene in Across the Universe, where Max is inducted into the army (to I Want You/She’s So Heavy) is gayer than the scene at the end of the song, where Prudence is pining over Sadie.
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> [The whole sequence is here.](http://youtu.be/mX6dHWyqwNo)

Very similar to, but not as gay as [White boys/black boys](http://youtu.be/z6JCCayPG7k) from Hair.

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