This change was a reflection of three important developments: (1) the increased adoption by the general public of the morbidification of sexual relations between women promoted by some sexologists (2) the rise of the studio system in Hollywood and (3) the onset of economic problems connected with the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. “The atmosphere in the Hollywood lesbian community began to change in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
