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Alfred Hitchcock's First Color Movie Is Secretly An LGBTQ+ Masterpiece
Alfred Hitchcock stirred the pot for 1940s Hollywood censor boards with his release of the remarkably LGBTQ+ Rope. By casting queer actors as well as assuring the script and narrative would be queer-coded, Hitchcock inadvertently created an LGBTQ+ masterpiece that remains revolutionary more than 70 years later. Rope caused significant controversy at the time of its release but has sparked conversation in queer film study in the decades following.