In THE TENDERFOOT (1932) Calvin Jones (Joe E. Brown) leaves Texas to invest in a Broadway play – upon arrival he mistakes a group of “pansies” in costume for cowboys. This scene reflects the “Pansy Craze” of the 1930s in which pansy characters were popularized on stage and screen by both gay and straight actors. These queer characters pop up quite often during Hollywood’s Pre-Code era – they weren’t censored until 1934. Pansy/sissy characters were often placed in western films because their effe