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Contents:
- HOW A CLOSETED GAY PRODUCER MA ‘SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER’ A H FILM — LARGELY THANKS TO S SOUNDTRACK
- BOBBY GAY OBUARY
- RSIA CUTS GAY SEX SCENE FROM STANLEY TUCCI & COL FIRTH'S SUPERNOVA
- SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS GAY? NICKELOON JT RERCED THAT THEORY
HOW A CLOSETED GAY PRODUCER MA ‘SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER’ A H FILM — LARGELY THANKS TO S SOUNDTRACK
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But there is also the unabashed racism of the ma characters, the grim hopelsns of Tony’s work and home life, the sual gay-bashg, the joyls and exploative sex, and the rape. And Stigwood prciently cid that, rather than stack the soundtrack wh popular dis hs om reliable (Black) acts like Kool & the Gang or Gloria Gaynor, he would missn new songs om the moribund talent signed to his stable, namely a fotten Asie boy band that had rerd a uple of mournful dti the 1960s. It is wh great sadns that we announce the ath of Bobby Gay of Sylvter, Geia, who passed away on May 17, 2021, at the age of 81, leavg to mourn fay and iends.
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BOBBY GAY OBUARY
; his signifint other Kim Swanson; his grandchildren, Elise Basil, Thomas Hardy Gay and Miller Gay; and his brothers, Jack Gay (Joan) of Moultrie, Jimmy Gay (Sharon) of Athens and Tommy Gay (Bobbie) of Crisp County.
A gay sex scene was cut om Supernova Rsian Mosw Timreports that the film, which stars Col Firth and Stanley Tucci as long-term partners pg wh one's mentia diagnosis, was self-censored by film distributors there.
RSIA CUTS GAY SEX SCENE FROM STANLEY TUCCI & COL FIRTH'S SUPERNOVA
The fears are rooted Rsia's "gay propaganda" law, which prohibs LGBTQ+ visibily venu accsible to mors. This law has been ed to penalize people and productns for a broad and often vague range of 2019, distributors nixed scen of gay timacy Rocketman, the Elton John bpic, due to siar fears of breakg this law.
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SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS GAY? NICKELOON JT RERCED THAT THEORY
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