Pretty 'racy'--- pre-code


That effeminate tailor was definitely gay. You would not see that post-Hayes code.
Did Matt Doyle and his girlfriend (played by Joan Blondell) have a kid out wedlock?
Tom Powers (Cagney) relationshps with his girlfriends (Jean Harlow and the other one) pretty overtly suggest doing the big nasty (sex).
Etc.

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