The following pages include now-hackneyed, hurtful tropes that must be retired immediately. While the code was done away with in 1968, its shorthand persists in film and television in the form of tropes that are dangerous for representation, like the compulsory killing off of queer characters, the depraved or promiscuous bisexual, the sissy villain, and the worst of all - complete erasure of queer existence. As the code weakened in the 1950s '60s, queer characters became more overt, but they were no less sad and tormented. Danvers in Hitchcock's Rebecca or the protagonists of Rope. They got around the ban as long as their LGBTQ characters were nefarious, lonely, and doomed like Mrs. But clever filmmakers and writers found a way around a complete ban of LGBTQ characters and developed a system of semiotics that would tip viewers off to queer characters. the Hays Code, which banned nudity, suggestive dancing, lustful kissing, and of course, depictions of "homosexuality" on screen. The accepted shorthand for queer characters is no longer useful.Ĭensorship reigned during Hollywood's heyday in the 1930s and '40s, with the implementation of the religiously-motivated Production Code, a.k.a.
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