Latent homosexuality despite the man being openly homosexual. Latent homosexual themes were a common theme of science fiction films of the 1950s. In the 1999 film "American Beauty" the character Colonel Fitts (Chris Cooper) is depicted as being a latent homosexual. Throughout the film, Fitts makes several statements that are narrow-minded and homophobic, and it disturbs the colonel that his son Ricky might be homosexual. However, towards the end of the film, it is revealed that Fitts himself has sexual feelings towards men when he approaches his neighbor Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) and kisses him, but Lester rejects Col. Fitts, and this
Carolyn Cassady documentary film "Love Always, Carolyn" in which she claims she is fighting a losing battle for the truth about Neal Cassady and Kerouac. She made her home in the English county of Berkshire, living near the town of Bracknell, about an hour outside London. After lapsing into a coma after an emergency appendectomy, Carolyn died at the age of 90 on September 20, 2013 at her home in Bracknell. In Kerouac's novel "On the Road" Carolyn's character is named "Camille". In the film adaptation "On the Road" (2012), Camille is portrayed by Kirsten Dunst. She also appears as "Evelyn Pomeray"