In 1935, “Sylvia Scarlett“premiered—an epic financial flop of a movie about a woman (played by Katherine Hepburn) who decides that she can help her debt-ridden father by dressing like a young man in order to commit crime more easily (#begaydocrime really rings true, doesn’t it?). In the process, she explores life as a man, and experiences changes in her relationship towards masculine presentation, and to women as romantic interests. A relic of the 1930’s, the movie unfortunately does not end with Sylvia continuing to explore gender fluidity and becoming a crime boss, but ends with her falling for a man and “becoming a woman again.” …
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