Ukrae bans "Bno" for nudy, gay sex | Rters

Contents:

• BNO -- BASED ON A REAL GAY ATRIAN?!
• UKRAE BANS "BNO" FOR NUDY, GAY SEX
• BNO'S WORLD: GAY LIFE ATRIA
• GAY ACTIVISTS WARY ABOUT FLAMBOYANT 'BNO'

BNO -- BASED ON A REAL GAY ATRIAN?!

Homophobia is a big issue today and I was really hopg to see some kd of exploratn to the was there but not the way I expected.

Real Gay Atrian?! The du ught the middle is Alfons Hair -- he's proud to be gay, he's to fashn, and (jt like Bno) he's also been known to pare himself to Zac Eon.

UKRAE BANS "BNO" FOR NUDY, GAY SEX

The only parisons I n thk of is that I'm Atrian, I'm gay, and I work for televisn, but the rt is pletely fictn. In the new edy Brüno, Sacha Baron Cohen plays an outlandish gay Atrian TV host and fashn reporter who wreaks havoc the Uned Stat.

Do Atria have an pecially thrivg gay muny? ) In terms of gay-iendls, only started tchg up wh s Wtern European unterparts, like England and Germany, the last or so.

BNO'S WORLD: GAY LIFE ATRIA

But nowadays, Vienna do have bars, clubs, rtrants, and bath ho that ter to the gay muny.

Vienna even markets self to gay tourists, boastg s history of “[g]ay emperors, generals or posers of days gone by. Homosexualy was illegal Atria until 1971.

GAY ACTIVISTS WARY ABOUT FLAMBOYANT 'BNO'

At that pot, the all-out ban on gay sex acts was replaced by another set of rtrictns, cludg a ban on gay and lbian anizatns, a ban on male prostutn (female prostutn is legal), and an age-of-nsent law that prohibed sex between a male olr than 18 and a male younger than 18 (even though the heterosexual age of nsent was 14). Atria only started allowg gay anizatns to operate aboveboard after joed the European Unn 1995 and didn’t repeal the age of nsent law until 2002.

Gay marriage remas illegal Atria, although a uple is allowed to marry if one member gets a sex change.

Atria has few proment gay figur. Perhaps the most famo Atrian homosexual was J Hair (no relatn to Alfons), the longtime lear of the far-right Atrian Freedom Party and Alliance for the Future of Atria, who died a r crash after leavg a gay bar. ” For years, a T-shirt monly seen at gay pri paras said, “I’m Hair’s Boyiend.

PASSAU, Germany, June 16, 2009 — -- Brish edian Sacha Baron Cohen's new movie about a fictnal gay Atrian fashn fanatic who wants to be "the most famo Atrian sce Adolf Hler" has some Atrians up arms even before s release next lead character, Bno, sometim spelled Brüno, is also a TV prenter reportg for the "Voice of Atrian Youth TV.

"I have three thgs mon wh the lead character Bno; I'm male, I'm gay and I'm Atrian. In fact, the flamboyantly gay, Atrian Bno first appeared edy sketch datg back to 1998, before Cohen then brought the character as part of his first rnatn of Da Ali G Show, which buted England 2000.

" Der Gay Convertor Episo: Rpek Say you're Pastor Qun, and you not only believe homosexualy is a s, but believe you n nvert gay people and turn them straight. As Bno begs by askg, "Why is beg gay so out this season?

" Sprg BreakEpiso: Realns Ah, the joys of Sprg Break and the joys of guys lvg ep to homoeroticism, whout a clue that they're dog so.

All of this sets up the punchle, as Bno reveals to one of the wrtlers that he's on Atria's "gay TV" – and we see this guy jt eak out, credibly upset, proclaimg, "There's no f**kg gay TV volved this! Brüno - Bno, a gay Atrian fashn gu is... Not bee The Brüno Movie Baron Cohen mak fun of Atria particular and homosexuals general, but bee the Brish edian’s marketg mache has bee obtsively abrasive.

In March he was already crashg the Milan fashn show and stttg down the twalk as a gay fashn reporter – which got him arrted (good publicy for him: sndal! He had himself abseiled down – bare butt and all – onto the lap of the notorly homophobic rapper Emem. Then Borat, the mtached Kazakh (and likewise misogyno and homophobic) TV reporter, took the cemas by storm 2006.

A Brish paper ially spected Alfons Hair [a gay Atrian film star] was the role mol.

However, some Amerin gay anisatns see that a ltle differently.

The satiril treatment of all-Amerin homophobia has e a cropper, they say. VIENNA (Rters) - A shockg gay fashn reporter who dreams of beg “the biggt Atrian superstar sce Hler” raised giggl when he h Atrian cemas on Friday spe havg rankled some who say his jok go too far. ”Subtled “Delic Journeys Through Ameri for the Purpose of Makg Heterosexual Mal Visibly Unfortable the Prence of a Gay Foreigner a Mh T-Shirt, ” the film -your-face edy to expose fle his homeland after his Velcro jumpsu havoc at a fashn show and he is sacked om his Atrian job.

He go to Hollywood, adopts an Ain baby exchange for an iPod and tri to get kidnapped, all a bid for gay advot have said they are worried the film uld rerce negative stereotyp about homosexuals and a few Atrians have reacted unhappily. The Brish actor buted a vio excerpt on Friday om his new mockumentary style movie “Bno” featurg a gay, Atrian fashnista alter-ego to rival his 2006 over-sexed Kazakh TV reporter Borat. The origal “Bno” subtle — “Delic Journeys Through Ameri for the Purpose of Makg Heterosexual Mal Visibly Unfortable the Prence of a Gay Foreigner” — appears to have been dropped.

KIEV (Rters) - Ukrae has banned “Bno, ” Sacha Baron Cohen’s edy about a gay Atrian fashn reporter, objectg to s scen of nudy and homosexual sex, the culture mistry said on ex-Soviet state, where nservative views on homosexualy still prevail, had already banned “Borat, ” Cohen’s prev satire aimed at maskg bigotry and anti-Semism the Uned Stat. A culture mistry missn nclud “Bno” clud an “artistilly unjtified exhibn of sexual ans and sexual relatns, homosexual acts a blatantly graphic form, obscene language, sadism, anti-social behavr which uld damage the moral upbrgg of our cizens. ”L like that, as well as his explic sexualy, gay sex scen and nudy have shocked has proven popular the Uned Stat and Bra, where reached the top of the box.

Bno is a gay Atrian portrayed by Sacha Baron Cohen, and is the third character of Da Ali G Show.

He claims to be the voice of Atrian youth televisn, and mak others unfortable by flntg his apparent homosexualy. Skheads that are gay.

Some Atrians have been bristlg at Sasha Baron Cohen's outrageo gay Atrian Bno character - labelg him "cheap, crass and offensive".