However, film critic Parker Tyler stated that the scene 'shocked audiences with its subversion of conventional male behavior'. At the time, the men were not seen as “queer“ or even flamboyant, but merely as acting fancifully. The first notable suggestion of homosexuality on film was in 1895, when two men were shown dancing together in the William Kennedy Dickson motion picture The Dickson Experimental Sound Film, commonly labeled online and in three published books as The Gay Brothers. The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1895)
