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A Florida Enchantment is a 1914 Vitagraph silent film directed by and starring Sidney Drew. The film is based on the 1891 novel and 1896 play (now lost) of the same name written by Fergus Redmond and Archibald Gunter.

In the film, Lillian Travers, a wealthy Northern woman, about to be married, takes a magical seed, which transforms its consumer into the opposite gender. Lillian's transformation into Lawrence Talbot has also been read as a transformation into a butch lesbian. This reading is bolstered by the later transformation of Lillian's fiance into what appears to be an effemininate gay man.

The film is also known for its use of blackface antics; an aspect carefully dissected in Siobhan Somerville's "Queering the Color Line." Since its inclusion in Vito Russo's "Celluloid Closet," the film has increasingly been seen as one of the eariliest filmic representations of homosexuality in American culture.

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