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These were the years during which Dwight D. Of course, even if the code hadn’t existed, depictions of lesbians in the ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s wouldn’t necessarily have been positive.

“Maybe somebody doesn’t have a boyfriend at an older age or somebody is living alone with a much younger woman, but you never can depict lesbianism as such.” Halberstam calls this the “negative image” era of lesbianism in film. “You had to represent lesbianism as full of horror and abjection in order to pass the code, so everything is implied,” Halberstam said. In part because of the code and in part due to centuries of ingrained homophobia, depictions of lesbianism in American film became shadowy and suggestive rather than overt.