Numerous modern movies have broken free from the “Queer Tragedy Trope” of a Post-Hays-Code Hollywood to radically display ...

Although the Hays Code and Lavender Scare served as a deterrent to queer representation in cinema, many filmmakers still found ways to include queer themes into their works. In his new book Sick and ...

Elizabeth Taylor, in a scene from the movie “Suddenly Last Summer,” adapted from a play by Tennessee Williams and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Columbia Pictures. (Getty Images) The following ...

For more than three decades, the code applied rigid moral scrutiny to films, banning everything from interracial dating to "lustful kissing." It... Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On When ...

Even after the eradication of the Hays Code, queerness continued to be treated as immoral in filmmaking. In place of the Hays Code, the Motion Picture Association Classification and Ratings ...