«La figura è equivoca. Però…». La censura cinematografica di fronte all’omosessualità

This essay presents first results of an ongoing archival research on homosexuality and Italian cinema in the after war period. It analyses how film censorship dealt with the representation of homosexuality, first trying to interdict it and then, from the late 1950s, negotiating its depiction in more refined manners, eventually envisaging the possibility of withdrawing it from the list of forbidden topics since the early 1970s.