Like many military-themed films, the films Top Gun, Transformers and several of the Marvel films were supported by the U.S. Department of Defense. But this support comes at a price: Producers need to follow several rules when working with the DoD on a film project, and the Pentagon censors various topics.

Laura Herges demonstrates how one such topic, homosexuality, has been suppressed by both the film industry and DoD regulations for several decades 👇

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From the First Gay Kiss to “Woke Garbage” – the Department of Defense’s Censorship of Queerness in Film

by Laura Herges May 16, 1929, would go down in history as the birthday of the world’s most prestigious awards...

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