Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness - Hardcover BookWritten by Michael Koresky A blazingly original history celebrating the persistence of queerness onscreen, behind the camera, and between the lines during the dark days of the Hollywood Production Code. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Motion Picture Production Code severely restricted what Hollywood cinema could depict. This included any inference of the lives of homosexuals. In a landmark 1981 book, gay activist Vito Russo famously condemned