indecency

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Like previous Tectonic works, including “The Laramie Project” and “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde,” it proceeds in the form of an investigation based on interviews and relevant documents.

From New York Times • May 30, 2023

While most of the 11,399 TV complaints received through the Consumer Help Center from December 29, 2014, to May 17, 2015, were about billing issues, 2181 were filed under "Indecency."

From Salon • Aug. 28, 2021

The award for poetry was won by the black queer poet Justin Phillip Reed for his first full-length book of poetry, Indecency.

From The Guardian • Nov. 14, 2018

Indecency laws aren’t going away any time soon, but they’ve already begun to seem laughably impotent in this digitized century, where the question of what to watch has virtually infinite answers.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2011

It is not to be doubted but if this Failing were set in a proper Light, he would quickly perceive the Indecency and evil Consequences of it.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph