Movies, writings, paintings and sculptures are considered arts. Nowadays its not just expressing individual feelings alone, everything is fully supervise by our history, governments, religious authorities, and self appointed arbiters morality. Arts have their own regulation and censorship of what individuals think and believe, read and write, see and depict.
"Degenerate art" by Nazis is one such examples have been under the history of censorship in the arts which includes incidents as the placing of fig leaves over the genitalia of Renaissance masterpieces. It also includes both criminalization of particular sexual images and the introduction of informal codes of censorship. In 1930's through 1960's, Motion Picture Production Code was restricted positive depictions of homosexuality by Hollywood.
In 1958, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the homophile magazine "One" was not obscene, lewd, lascivious and filthy because it discusses homosexuality which has the distribution of work with homosexual content even when it was not sexually explicit.
Photographic images of nude men and women, whether or not they were engaged in erotic activities, were routinely confiscated and destroyed, and the creators and distributors often prosecuted. Perhaps even more invidious than the official censorship enforced by governments is the self-censorship performed by gay and lesbian writers and artists themselves as a consequence of a pervasive climate of censorship and homophobia.
Many gay and lesbian artists have in effect placed their artistic imaginations in the closet which cause of realizing the danger of open homosexual expression. They have also defied the legal and social prohibitions against explicit depictions of sexuality have seen their art censored or suppressed, especially if it deals sympathetically with homosexuality. Which leads, destroying their privates art out of well justified fear and they have frequently made decisions to avoid homosexual subject matter in their art.
