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Texan mother shuts down homophobes who want to ban pro-gay library books
A proud mother in Texas has stepped up to defend her local library – amid an attempt to ban pro-gay children’s books. Earlier this month, more than 50 upset parents in Hood County attempted to rid the...
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Gay kiss on New York Times cover censored in Pakistan
A same-sex kiss featured on the cover of the International New York Times was blanked out in the Pakistani edition. The iconic American newspaper had featured a gay couple from China on the cover of...
View ArticleStephen Fry hits out at ‘self-pitying’ sexual assault victims trying to...
Stephen Fry has hit out a “self-pitying” culture of censorship around sexual assault in a controversial interview. The actor, comedian and former QI host spoke to US TV host Dave Rubin for The Rubin...
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Some airlines are censoring all lesbian kissing in Carol
Some airlines have chosen to show an edited version of Carol that removes all the lesbian kiss scenes. If you’re flying Delta anytime soon you might want to reconsider choosing Carol as your in-flight...
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Gay rapper Mykki Blanco hits out at YouTube after video removal branded...
Gay rapper Mykki Blanco’s video “Loner” has returned to YouTube after it was taken down for failing to meet the “community guidelines.” Fans of Blanco accused YouTube of censoring the video because of...
View ArticleSir Ian McKellen slams censorship of Beauty and the Beast over gay character
Sir Ian McKellen has hit out at the extreme reactions to the upcoming Disney remake of Beauty and the Beast featuring a gay character. Disney has come under sustained fire from evangelicals in recent...
View ArticleKylie Minogue fought against censorship of gay couples in ‘All The Lovers’ video
Kylie Minogue reportedly fought to keep same-sex couples in her video for gay anthem All The Lovers. The Australian singer released the track All The Lovers in 2010, with a video intended to pay...
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Facebook is blocking this video of Thailand’s King Bodindradebayavarangkun in...
Facebook is blocking a video of the king of Thailand wearing a crop top. The social network has blocked users in Thailand from seeing the video at the request of the country’s government, which outlaws...
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Censorship claims as iconic gay film Paris Is Burning pulled from festival at...
The classic film Paris Is Burning has been removed from a Singaporean film festival at the last minute in an attempt to avoid controversy. In a move widely criticised by LGBT activists in Singapore,...
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Russia tightens gay website crackdown and bans HIV health website
Russia’s media regulator is shutting down a HIV health website as it continues to target LGBT+ websites in a media censorship crackdown. The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, known as...
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Kenya’s censorship chief claims Western charities pay kids £22,000 each to...
The head of Kenya’s censorship bureau has claimed that charities are paying young people £22,000 per head to become homosexuals. The surreal claim comes from Dr Ezekiel Mutua of the Kenya Film...
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Eurovision Song Contest 2018: China censored Ireland’s gay dancers and...
China censored a performance of Ireland’s Eurovision Song Contest entry over gay themes, it has been reported. Update: China has been banned from broadcasting Eurovision Ireland took part in Tuesday’s...
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Eurovision 2018: Ireland’s Ryan O’Shaughnessy welcomes ban on Chinese...
Ireland’s Eurovision entrant Ryan O’Shaughnessy has welcomed the decision to strip a Chinese broadcaster of rights to air the contest – after they censored a gay love story. It was reported on Thursday...
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Kenyan film commission slams ban on lesbian love story as ‘ridiculous’
The head of the Kenyan film commission has slammed the country’s ban on the lesbian film Rafiki as “ridiculous.” Rafiki, which means friend in KiSwahili, follows two Kenyan girls who fall in love and...
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E3 featured a lesbian kiss — but not everyone was able to see it
The biggest video game convention of the year featured a groundbreaking lesbian kiss, but viewers watching through a Disney channel stream of the event missed it. E3 is an annual event where video game...
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Indonesian university student website censored over lesbian love story
A university rector in Indonesia has demanded the removal of a lesbian love story from a student publication, and dismissed the outlet’s editorial board after they refused to do so. The 1,000-word...
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Weibo is removing content with the #les hashtag
The Chinese microblogging website Sina Weibo has reportedly been removing posts and comments with the hashtag #les. The ban on the term, which is short for lesbian, was discovered by users who use the...
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Taron Egerton ‘crestfallen’ as Rocketman gay scenes cut in Russia
Rocketman star Taron Egerton has spoken out after it was revealed gay sex scenes were censored from the film’s release in Russia. The filmmakers have blamed a “local distributor” in Russia for the...
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Brazil’s culture secretary resigns over Bolsonaro’s ‘censorship of LGBT TV...
Brazil’s special secretary of culture, Henrique Medeiros Pires, has stepped down in protest against president Jair Bolsonaro’s censorship of LGBT+ content on TV. Pires announced his resignation to...
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Brazil must reinstate funding for LGBT films because they ‘deserve...
A federal judge has ruled that Brazil must reinstate suspended funding for LGBT+ films because they “deserve protection”, in a victory for LGBT+ activists and filmmakers. Jair Bolsonaro’s decision to...
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Airline has stripped Elton John biopic Rocketman of ‘almost every gay...
An American airline allegedly stripped “almost every gay reference” from the Elton John biopic Rocketman during an on-board flight. Delta Air Lines, according to a passenger’s online testimony,...
View ArticleTrans model slams Instagram for removing steamy photo, says cis men get away...
A trans model has slammed Instagram after the platform removed one of his steamy photos when similar photos of cisgender men are not censored. Kenny Ethan Jones shared the nude photo on Instagram last...
View ArticleTikTok admits it censored LGBT users in ‘wrong’ attempt to tackle online...
TikTok has admitted that in its early days it censored posts by users it deemed “vulnerable” in a misguided attempt to prevent online bullying. Documents obtained by the German site netzpolitik.org...
View ArticleMan ‘devastated’ after TikTok removed video of him kissing his boyfriend...
A man has claimed that TikTok removed a video of him sharing a kiss with his boyfriend at midnight on New Year’s Eve, saying that it violated their community guidelines. Mark Pasetsky is the former...
View ArticleNew Chinese version of Queer Eye is completely straight – to the surprise of...
A new Chinese reality show is suspiciously similar to Queer Eye… except every one of its Fab Five are straight. You Are So Beautiful was released on the state-owned streaming service Mango TV in...
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God’s Own Country director calls for Amazon boycott after the film’s gay sex...
UPDATE (May 21): Since the story was published, God’s Own Country director Francis Lee and Amazon representatives stated that Amazon did not cut the streamable film, but distributors Samuel Goldwyn...
View ArticleQatari government advisor claims queer Snapchat content is a ‘deviation from...
A Qatar foreign ministry advisor has slammed the “warm attitude” to homosexuality shown on social media and in video games. Qatari journalist Na’ima ‘Abd al-Wahhab al-Mutawa’a, who serves as media...
View ArticleTikTok admits it enacted a ‘shadow-ban’ censoring several LGBT+ hashtags,...
TikTok has admitted to restricting LGBT-related hashtags in several languages and regions after being exposed by an Australian think tank. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) found that...
View ArticleTikTok insists it ‘celebrates and protects’ queer creators but apologises for...
TikTok has apologised for censoring and suppressing LGBT+ content on the social media platform, admitting: “We got that really wrong.” In December 2019, it was revealed TikTok had censored posts by...
View ArticleSacha Baron Cohen wanted an ‘outrageously’ gay Freddie Mercury in his canned...
Sacha Baron Cohen’s original version of Bohemian Rhapsody would have been “very outrageous” with “endless naked scenes”, his former collaborator has revealed. A biopic of the Queen frontman was first...
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