“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

In early 1989, his retrospective entitled “Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment” work was organized by the University of Pennsylvania's Institute of Contemporary Art dedicated for the show from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). It includes 150 of Mapplethorpe's images which are formal portraiture, flowers, children, and carefully posed, sexually explicit, erotic scenes, some of which were sadomasochistic. The exhibit was scheduled to tour seven cities throughout the United States. It was considered as attracted record-breaking crowds at the city’s of Musuem of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

Pre-Stonewall art is a work produced prior to the 1969 Stonewall uprising that inaugurated the more militant phase of the gay rights movement which deals with homosexual subject matter is typically covert or indirect. Artists were forced to adopt strategies of concealment in order to avoid controversy or possibly even imprisonment. The meaning of their work is often discernible only through a decoding of signs and signals, or by reading the art in terms of the artists’ biographies.

In many parts of the world, censorship continues to be a major impediment to gay and lesbian artistic expression. Efforts at art censorship have become somewhat more subtle, often centering on questions of the public support for art and on the protection of the innocence of children rather than involving outright bans against the creation or distribution of gay or lesbian art. It is also important to note that sometimes censorship obtains the desired effect: the art is destroyed and the artist is reduced to silence or his or her vision is inhibited. But in other instances censorship backfires, causing an image to attract wider attention than it would ever have attained had it been ignored.

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.

By the summer of 1989, how

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