Boys Beware (1962)
A Cold War cautionary short that warns teenage boys about “dangerous strangers,” now remembered as a chilling artifact of mid-century anti-gay hysteria.
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A Cold War cautionary short that warns teenage boys about “dangerous strangers,” now remembered as a chilling artifact of mid-century anti-gay hysteria.

A moral panic lecture disguised as a documentary, condemning obscenity while inadvertently revealing the era’s anxieties about sexuality.

An incisive examination of the backlash against Australia’s Safe Schools program and the wider political struggle over gender, sexuality, education, and the family. Roz Ward uses autotheory and Marxist analysis to place contemporary moral panics within the broader crisis of social reproduction.

An examination of how transgender and non-binary people became central targets in American political rhetoric and culture-war narratives. S. Elias W Sharp explores scapegoating, moral panic, media narratives, campaign strategy, and the broader relationship between fear, power, and public policy.