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== Mae West's ''The Drag'' Banned in New York (1927) == | |||
* [[Mae West]]'s play ''The Drag'' is banned in the [[State of New York]], some of the cast is arrested. The play is reported to have had strong "homosexual" themes (February 1, 1927). | |||
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== Tennessee Williams Describes Filming Censorship (1954) == | == Tennessee Williams Describes Filming Censorship (1954) == | ||
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The USA has a history of censoring LGBTQIA+ themes, characters, and ideas throughout history. Here some of the history will be archived.
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Mae West's The Drag Banned in New York (1927)
- Mae West's play The Drag is banned in the State of New York, some of the cast is arrested. The play is reported to have had strong "homosexual" themes (February 1, 1927).
Tennessee Williams Describes Filming Censorship (1954)
- Tennessee Williams, then-popular Country singer, tells the Key West Citizen, a newspaper in the State of Florida, about the filming of his play A Streetcar Named Desire; "We had to make one change because of censorship. We couldn't mention homosexuality as a human problem" (December 22, 1954).
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