Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Old Hollywood movies had to follow strict guidelines throughout the 1930s–1960s, known as the Hays Code. This basically prevented ...

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 ...

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 ...