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- TV SHOW ABOUT GAY TEENAGER WON'T BE BROADST ON DSTV SA
- DSTV UGANDA WON'T SHOW GAY NTENT AFTER HARSH LGBTQIA+ LAW
TV SHOW ABOUT GAY TEENAGER WON'T BE BROADST ON DSTV SA
MultiChoice won't be showg any queer ntent on DStv Uganda after the ernment passed s anti-gay bill. * gay channel in dstv *
The gay-foced OUTtv channel will only be available South Ai and nowhere else Ai where anised opposn and ristance to the broadst of "pro-gay" televisn ntent the past few years have land Naspers' MultiChoice pay-TV arm and channel distributors hot water wh the rt of the ntent's censorship board and regulators. MultiChoice told TVwhTh rponse to a media enquiry askg why OUTtv will only be available to DStv Premium and DStv Compact Pl South Ai specifilly, that MultiChoice only cleared the ntent rights of the gay programmg for this specific market.
Tl on OUTtv will range om RuPl’s Drag Race All Stars, Big Freedia Queen of Bounce, Atralian seri like Deep Water and Wentworth, Degrassi: Next Generatn and Hey Qween!, as well as OUTtv origal seri Knock Knock Ghost, Sex & Vlence, Shadowlands, The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula and Don’t Qu Your Gay Job.
DSTV UGANDA WON'T SHOW GAY NTENT AFTER HARSH LGBTQIA+ LAW
MultiChoice was asked whether OUTtv will e wh a general age rtrictn, like for stance 13PG, but the pay-TV operator says OUTtv is stctured and programmed as a liftyle channel and that the channel's gay ntent won't rry any overall age blockg South Ai. In June 2017 Kenya's Film Classifitn Board (KFCB) banned 7 kids rtoon for bog reasons like sayg one character "has a dick for a head", and that two characters who went on an (unseen) "implied romantic vatn", orrg MultiChoice Ai to remove Loud Hoe, The Legend of Korra, Hey Arnold, Clarence, Steven Universe, Adventure Time and Star vs the Forc of Evil om DStv bee of "homosexual them".
In November 2017 Kenya banned the Disney Channel show Andi Mack bee featured a gay teenager, keepg off televisn for the entire Ai, cludg South Ai. In July 2016 Via Internatnal Media Networks Ai said is censorg an episo of The Loud Hoe on Nickeloon and won't be broadstg on s channel on DStv Ai sce featured animated gay dads. They discs everythg om safe spac to gay for pay and Sniffi -- no serly, there's a whole breakdown on Sniffi.