Netflix Gay J Comedy Movie Sparks Backlash - Variety

Contents:

• GAY J
• BRAZIL: NETFLIX 'GAY J' PARODY FILM BAN OVERTURNED
• NETFLIX UNR FIRE FOR PICTG J AS GAY NEW CHRISTMAS MOVIE
• GAY J (2015)
• DID NETFLIX REALLY MAKE A ‘GAY J MOVIE’?
• 'GAY J' MOVIE SPARKS MASSIVE BACKLASH, PETN TO GET IT REMOVED
• NETFLIX FACG BACKLASH OVER COMEDY SPECIAL WH GAY J
• BRAZIL: NETFLIX TOLD TO REMOVE FILM PICTG J AS GAY
• NETFLIX FILM DEPICTG A GAY J INC #CANCELONETFLIX HASHTAG
• COMEDY TROUPE ATTACKED BY MOLOTOV COCKTAILS FOR NETFLIX GAY J FILM
• CREATORS OF NETFLIX’S ‘GAY J’ CHRISTMAS FILM: ‘WE ARE ONLY ALIVE BEE J WAS NOT GAY AND BLACK’
• NOLTE: NETFLIX RELEAS ‘GAY J’ CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
• NETFLIX FACG BACKLASH OVER COMEDY SPECIAL WH GAY J

GAY J

Brazil's far-right Print Jair Bolsonaro once said he would rather have a ad son than a gay son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, lled the Netflix show "garbage" on Twter, addg that Porta dos Fundos "do not reprent Brazilian society" may also be terted :More on this story. A Brazilian edy streamg on Netflix that picts J Christ as closeted and gay is drawg fire om “serly offend Christians. But they only see a gay J.

BRAZIL: NETFLIX 'GAY J' PARODY FILM BAN OVERTURNED

Decir noted the growg rebelln om Christians while also suggtg the “swishy” pictns of gay men the show were veerg “towards the problematic” themselv. Conservative Christians are fired up over the ia that Netflix has released a edy where J (you know, the guy who did the water to we trick) is implied to be gay. When I first saw the tweet circulatg I was trigued bee a gay J edy hontly sounds fun but I hadn’t heard of this film … Netflix is releasg a edy about a “gay J” & the Left has been tellg nservativ and Christians not to be so outraged about Ok fe, then let’s make a sequal about a gay Mohammed and see how that go over wh y’all.

Orlando is a gay riture that’s very dated, but I’m not sure what the humor is Brazil and what their standards are for what’s offensive regards to this topic.

NETFLIX UNR FIRE FOR PICTG J AS GAY NEW CHRISTMAS MOVIE

And there are even thgs that are offensive to gay people bee the big twist is that J’s boyiend Orlando is … actually Lucifer.

It’s both homophobic, a b racist and offensive to all religns and ’s jt … tired. But y, there is ed a “gay J movie” on Netflix that you too n watch anytime you want.

GAY J (2015)

Brazilian Netflix viewers have set up a petn to have a satiril Christmas movie, portrayg J as gay, removed om the a ln viewers so far have e together to ban “The First Temptatn of Christ, ” a 46-mute long satiril edy created by a Brazilian edy troupe “Porta dos Fundos, ” the same group who prevly created “The Last Haner, ” a parody of the last supper which the Apostl have to lote a dnken J who went missg. ” They also mentn how “tolerant” is towards relign, ntroversy don’t end there, though, as members of the LGBTQ muny have also exprsed their distaste for the film, wh a Decir review by John Serba cg s “gay stereotyp” as problematic. Long-standg false mor holds that J and His discipl will be portrayed as homosexual a soon-to-be-released movie.

J and His discipl are gog to be portrayed as homosexual a soon-to-be-released film. This piece about an upg "gay J film" is one of those exampl that monstrat a good petn never go away, even when the issue addrs has long sce been settled (or was never really an issue the first place). The "gay J film" petn first h the fan 1984, and by the end of 1985 more than a ln Christians had wrten prott letters an attempt to have the non-existent movie referenced banned.

Morn People News has revealed plans for the filmg of a movie based on the SEX LIFE OF JESUS which J is portrayed as a swgg HOMOSEXUAL. Followg the efforts at verifitn, a statement was read on the air sayg that although the attorney general had received between two and three thoand letters over a perd of several weeks ncerng the supposed gay-J movie, no evince uld be found that such a project ever existed.

DID NETFLIX REALLY MAKE A ‘GAY J MOVIE’?

The cha letter is a plea to prott " the strongt possible language" the makg of a movie which J Christ uld be picted as a swgg homosexual. This novative film, signed exclively for gay dienc, go to excciatg tail ncerng the erotic reer of J Christ.

'GAY J' MOVIE SPARKS MASSIVE BACKLASH, PETN TO GET IT REMOVED

Louie satisfi that cursy by showg that the Son of Man was a vorac homosexual. ) The central character of the film is actually a young gay male ntemporary Ameri whose sexual obssn wh J helps him to unrstand the "hidn meang" of the Gospels.

The non-existence of a "gay J film" did not stem the ire of those who heard about . The uproar wasn't over a gay J, merely one who both qutned his fate and who had a dream about a sexual relatnship wh Mary Magdalene. We take our relig ins serly, as Denis Lemon, edor of the Brish publitn Gay News, found out 1978.

He lost his appeal agast nvictn for blasphemo libel volvg poem he had published about a Roman centurn's homosexual love for J. "Texas Town Cross Over Play's 'Gay' Christ.

NETFLIX FACG BACKLASH OVER COMEDY SPECIAL WH GAY J

"Curtas for Play Depictg Christ As Gay. "Florida Universy Unr Fire for Play wh Gay Christ Character. “The First Temptatn of Christ” — a Netflix Christmas edy special that portrays a gay J and a weed-spokg Mary — has sparked backlash.

Image source, AFPImage ptn, In the film, J brgs home a prumed boyiend to meet his fayA judge Brazil has led that a film pictg J as gay mt be removed om the TV streamg service film, The First Temptatn of Christ, furiated fervent Christians the ln people signed a petn llg for to be axed, and the productn pany was attacked wh Molotov cktails last the lg agast Netflix, the judge said: "The right to eedom of exprsn...

A judge R Janeiro led Wednday that a movie satirizg J as gay mt be removed om Netflix's streamg service, but Brazil's hight urt overturned that cisn the followg day. Netflix has experienced backlash durg the Christmas season as a rult of a Brazilian edy special that picts J as a gay man. Netflix film pictg a gay J c #Canceloflix hashtag.

BRAZIL: NETFLIX TOLD TO REMOVE FILM PICTG J AS GAY

Lnched over the Christmas season Brazil, The First Temptatn of Christ is a 46-mute edy that imag J as a gay man who home for his 30th birthday acpanied by his male partner.

None the ls, for those who are offend by the ia of a gay J, ncellg a Netflix subscriptn is certaly a far more appropriate solutn than rultg to vlence.

A Catholic group nounced the satiril film as "portrayg Joseph as an idt, Mary as a cheater and J as a childish homosexual. A Brazilian satiril film portrayg J as gay on Netflix has ed que a firtorm the South Amerin untry.

NETFLIX FILM DEPICTG A GAY J INC #CANCELONETFLIX HASHTAG

Brazilian Judge Blocks Netflix Comedy Special 'The First Temptatn of Christ' That Depicts Gay J.

COMEDY TROUPE ATTACKED BY MOLOTOV COCKTAILS FOR NETFLIX GAY J FILM

The judge's lg was prompted by a legal plat om a nservative Catholic group claimg the film "attacked the protectn of relig eedom" by "portrayg Joseph as an idt, Mary as a cheater and J as a childish homosexual. Si note: J was gay.

It picts J as a gay man wh an asi of jt beg disrpectful. There was huge public backlash December 2019 when a film was released to Netflix portrayg J as gay. A year on om their film’s release, the creators of Netflix’s “gay J” Christmas edy have reflected on the homophobic backlash that nearly st them their liv.

CREATORS OF NETFLIX’S ‘GAY J’ CHRISTMAS FILM: ‘WE ARE ONLY ALIVE BEE J WAS NOT GAY AND BLACK’

The film follows J, who is gay and “htg the big 3-0”, brgg his boyiend home to meet his fay at Christmas, and more than two ln people signed a petn to ban the movie for “serly offendg Christians”. Anton Tabet, one of the -founrs of the group, said: “I’m certa that they only threw bombs at Porta bee we ma J gay last year’s special.

“I thk the only reason we are alive is bee we didn’t make J gay and Black; otherwise, there would have been even more bombs.

NOLTE: NETFLIX RELEAS ‘GAY J’ CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

Fab Porchat, another member of the group, add: “Last year, the backlash me om homophob. This year’s Porta dos Fundos special is tled Teocracia em Vertigem, or Theocracy Vertigo, a parody of the outrage over their “gay J” movie.

Netflix has jt released a “gay J” Christmas special lled The First Temptatn of Christ. This year, this new Christmas special, J turns 30 and brgs his gay boyiend home to meet Mary and Joseph.

In this way, lazy, wardly garbage like The First Temptatn of Christ is eful — expos who the bigots are, and if this so-lled edy troupe wants to produce a “Gay Mohammed” special for Ramadan and Netflix wants to stream , I will take all back. Relig folks are rallyg together agast a Netflix edy that featur a gay First Temptatn of Christ is a Brazilian Christmas film that follows the story of J brgg home his boyiend, Orlando, to meet his parents as part of his 30th birthday aka Christmas. Judgg by the trailer (which is Portugue), the celebratn quickly volv to a edy of errors, wh Orlando holdg nothg back as he greets J’s parents and the whole Biblil gang as the flamboyant bf he so clearly this satiril pictn of J as a — gasp — homosexual didn’t s will wh people who don’t appreciate humor or seem to thk a edy film wh a fictnal gay J character is tryg to suate the “real” J of the Bible was also gay.

NETFLIX FACG BACKLASH OVER COMEDY SPECIAL WH GAY J

”While lls for the films removal ntue, if you want to enjoy a gay J Christmas, you n hop right on over to Netflix and have yourself a holly jolly romp through temptatn and s. What if Chuck and Lonnie had differg ias about the gays?

That seems like somethg pretty basic that directors Jon Erw and Brent McCorkle would want to addrs, and not only do they not addrs , I had to go to Google after the creds rolled to learn that the real Lonnie Frisbee was actually a gay man who died of plitns om AIDS 1993 (vered a 2005 documentary, Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher, om director David Di Sabato).