An instant speedbump! I was thrown from the moving argument!
(Russo used "coded references to [homosexuality] in The Celluloid Closet, bless OCR.)
Thank you! I thought he might have: I am confident that the term even predates him, thanks to the necessity of finding some way to talk about the sieve of the Production Code.
[edit] Bingo: "As over and over again we may notice in films, this homosexuality in code (because partly under wraps) is but another facet of life itself." Parker Tyler, Screening the Sexes: Homosexuality in Movies (1972). Ten minutes with Google Books and the Internet Archive, New York Times!
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An instant speedbump! I was thrown from the moving argument!
(Russo used "coded references to [homosexuality] in The Celluloid Closet, bless OCR.)
Thank you! I thought he might have: I am confident that the term even predates him, thanks to the necessity of finding some way to talk about the sieve of the Production Code.
[edit] Bingo: "As over and over again we may notice in films, this homosexuality in code (because partly under wraps) is but another facet of life itself." Parker Tyler, Screening the Sexes: Homosexuality in Movies (1972). Ten minutes with Google Books and the Internet Archive, New York Times!