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 ...

In the 1930s, the infamous Hays Code came to Hollywood, a conservative set of motion picture guidelines that outlawed American films from featuring anything deemed lewd, crude, explicit, or—of ...

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 ...

In April, the film critic and scholar was promoted to senior curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image, the prestigious institution in Queens, New York; he was previously the museum’s ...