A History of Hollywood s Representation of the LGBTQ+ Community in Films E! 9 hrs ago
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Call Me By Your Name are just three of the blockbuster films that would ve been impossible to make even less than a century ago.
From 1934 to 1968, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America implemented the Motion Picture Production Code, a.k.a. the Hays Code, which regulated what was considered morally appropriate to show moviegoers. This impacted whether women could be topless, the use of vulgar language and even the depiction of men and women sleeping in the same bed.
But the most harmful policy was the outright refusal to depict same-sex relationships. So, until the early 70s, the LGBTQ+ community was largely unrepresented in films across America.
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New Book Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes has just been published by University of Michigan Press (2021).
[I love the cover, which features great photo of the outstanding performance artist Freddie Mercado. As soon as we get more information of the cover art, we will share!]
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Translocas focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx “locas” (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence to which queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the U.S. are subjected. This interdisciplinary, auto-ethnographic, queer-of-color performance studies book explores the lives and work of cont