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• CHA CENSORED THE GAY SCEN FROM BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
• BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY: ALL THREE MUT OF THE FILM’S GAY SCEN CENSORED CHATHE QUEEN BPIC WAS FALLY RELEASED CHE THEATERS, BUT REFERENC TO FREDDIE MERCURY’S SEXUALY DIDN’T MAKE THE CUT.BY YOHANA DTAMARCH 26, 2019COURTY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEBOHEMIAN RHAPSODY HAS BEEN CENSORED CHA, MUCH TO THE ANNOYANCE OF SOME CHE THEATERGOERS. ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK TIM, THE QUEEN BPIC H THEATERS THE UNTRY LAST WEEKEND, BUT WAS AN ALTERED VERSN THAT OMTED REFERENC TO LEAD SGER FREDDIE MERCURY’S SEXUALY. PER THE TIM, THOSE REFERENC CLU THE SCENE WHERE MERCURY, WHO WAS BISEXUAL, DISCS HIS SEXUALY WH HIS FIANCéE, AND THE SCENE THAT TRODUC MERCURY’S FUTURE PARTNER, JIM HUTTON. IN ADDN, A SCENE WHERE QUEEN PERFORMS WOMEN’S CLOTHG HAS BEEN OMTED. ALL ALL, THE CHE VERSN OF THE FILM IS ABOUT THREE MUT SHORTER THAN THE ORIGAL RELEASE.OTHER TWEAKS WERE MA, THE TIM NOT. IN THE SCENE WHERE MERCURY REVEALS HE HAS AIDS TO HIS BANDMAT, THE DIALOGUE WAS SILENCED AND NO SUBTL WERE PROVID. MERCURY LATER DIED OF BRONCHOPNMONIA RULTG OM AIDS. A SPOKMAN FOR TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX, THE STUD BEHD THE FILM, TOLD THE TIM THE PANY HAD NO MENT ON THE CENSORED RELEASE OF BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY CHA.CENSORSHIP OF HOLLYWOOD FILMS IS FAIRLY MON CHA. THE MOST EXTREME RECENT EXAMPLE WAS THE UNTRY BANNG THE WNIE THE POOH FILM CHRISTOPHER ROB, LIKELY BEE POOH HAS BEEN ED AS A SYMBOL OF THE RISTANCE BY CHE ACTIVISTS. STILL, THE CHE THEATERGOG DIENCE IS A LUCRATIVE ONE FOR HOLLYWOOD, SO STUDS TYPILLY YIELD TO THE CENSORS.BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY WAS A MASSIVE BOX-OFFICE H, STARRG RAMI MALEK AS THE BAND’S LATE, GREAT LEAD SGER. MALEK WENT ON TO W A BT-ACTOR OSR FOR HIS PERFORMANCE. HE DITED HIS SPEECH LARGELY TO MERCURY, SAYG, “WE MA A FILM ABOUT A GAY MAN, AN IMMIGRANT, WHO LIVED HIS LIFE JT UNAPOLOGETILLY HIMSELF.” THAT, APPARENTLY, WAS TOO MUCH FOR CHE CENSORS; THE MASSIVE MEDIA PLATFORM MANGO TV REPLACED “GAY MAN” WH “SPECIAL GROUP” SUBTL, THE TIM NOT.WHILE THE CENSORSHIP IS G TRATN AMONG CHE VIEWERS, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY WAS CRICIZED UPON S STATI RELEASE FOR FAILG TO RPECTFULLY EXPLORE AND CELEBRATE MERCURY’S SEXUALY. THE BPIC ALSO DRASTILLY MIMIZED THE SUPERSTAR SGER’S RELATNSHIP WH HUTTON, WHO WAS HIS PARTNER FOR SEVEN YEARS, UNTIL MERCURY’S ATH 1991.MORE GREAT STORI OM VANY FAIR—  “I WILL GET YOUR CHILD TO LLEGE.” INSI RICK SGER’S PCH TO L.A. PARENTS.— THE WAR THAT ULD TRANSFORM—OR TEAR APART—HOLLYWOOD— “I AM A FAT LADY, AND I SERVE RPECT”: LDY WT ON HULU’S SHRILL— WHY JORDAN PEELE MIGHT NOT WANT YOU TO TOTALLY UNRSTAND USLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.JAY-Z, TA KNOWL, ANGELA BASSETT AND MORE TOAST 20 YEARS OF DEFG THE SOUL OF BLACK ART1 / 19CHEVRONCHEVRONPHOTOGRAPH BY ROGER KISBY.TA KNOWL AND MARK BRADFORDMOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYIS THIS THE BEGNG OF THE END OF THE WRERS STRIKE?BY NATALIE JARVEYYOHANA DTA
• SOUTH KOREAN BROADSTER CENSORS GAY KISS ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’
• BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY OPENS CHA, M ALL THE GAY BS
• SOUTH KOREAN BROADSTER CENSORS GAY KISS 'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'
• CHA CUTS ALL BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY GAY SCEN CREATG HUGE PLOT HOL
• CHA REMOV ALL GAY DIALOGUE AND SCEN FROM ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY,’ ENDS UP CREATG PLOT HOL
• ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’ WH NO GAY SCEN? CENSORED FILM ANGERS CHE VIEWERS
• SBS DRAWS FIRE FOR EDG OUT GAY KISS OM ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’
• 'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY' CENSORED CHA: NO AIDS, GAY KISSG OR CROSS-DRSG

CHA CENSORED THE GAY SCEN FROM BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

" The official said their censorship did not jt apply to gay ntent.

"We ma a film about a gay man, an immigrant, who lived his life jt unapologetilly himself, " Malek said his speech acceptg his Osr, addg that his w was "proof that we're longg for stori like this.

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY: ALL THREE MUT OF THE FILM’S GAY SCEN CENSORED CHATHE QUEEN BPIC WAS FALLY RELEASED CHE THEATERS, BUT REFERENC TO FREDDIE MERCURY’S SEXUALY DIDN’T MAKE THE CUT.BY YOHANA DTAMARCH 26, 2019COURTY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEBOHEMIAN RHAPSODY HAS BEEN CENSORED CHA, MUCH TO THE ANNOYANCE OF SOME CHE THEATERGOERS. ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK TIM, THE QUEEN BPIC H THEATERS THE UNTRY LAST WEEKEND, BUT WAS AN ALTERED VERSN THAT OMTED REFERENC TO LEAD SGER FREDDIE MERCURY’S SEXUALY. PER THE TIM, THOSE REFERENC CLU THE SCENE WHERE MERCURY, WHO WAS BISEXUAL, DISCS HIS SEXUALY WH HIS FIANCéE, AND THE SCENE THAT TRODUC MERCURY’S FUTURE PARTNER, JIM HUTTON. IN ADDN, A SCENE WHERE QUEEN PERFORMS WOMEN’S CLOTHG HAS BEEN OMTED. ALL ALL, THE CHE VERSN OF THE FILM IS ABOUT THREE MUT SHORTER THAN THE ORIGAL RELEASE.OTHER TWEAKS WERE MA, THE TIM NOT. IN THE SCENE WHERE MERCURY REVEALS HE HAS AIDS TO HIS BANDMAT, THE DIALOGUE WAS SILENCED AND NO SUBTL WERE PROVID. MERCURY LATER DIED OF BRONCHOPNMONIA RULTG OM AIDS. A SPOKMAN FOR TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX, THE STUD BEHD THE FILM, TOLD THE TIM THE PANY HAD NO MENT ON THE CENSORED RELEASE OF BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY CHA.CENSORSHIP OF HOLLYWOOD FILMS IS FAIRLY MON CHA. THE MOST EXTREME RECENT EXAMPLE WAS THE UNTRY BANNG THE WNIE THE POOH FILM CHRISTOPHER ROB, LIKELY BEE POOH HAS BEEN ED AS A SYMBOL OF THE RISTANCE BY CHE ACTIVISTS. STILL, THE CHE THEATERGOG DIENCE IS A LUCRATIVE ONE FOR HOLLYWOOD, SO STUDS TYPILLY YIELD TO THE CENSORS.BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY WAS A MASSIVE BOX-OFFICE H, STARRG RAMI MALEK AS THE BAND’S LATE, GREAT LEAD SGER. MALEK WENT ON TO W A BT-ACTOR OSR FOR HIS PERFORMANCE. HE DITED HIS SPEECH LARGELY TO MERCURY, SAYG, “WE MA A FILM ABOUT A GAY MAN, AN IMMIGRANT, WHO LIVED HIS LIFE JT UNAPOLOGETILLY HIMSELF.” THAT, APPARENTLY, WAS TOO MUCH FOR CHE CENSORS; THE MASSIVE MEDIA PLATFORM MANGO TV REPLACED “GAY MAN” WH “SPECIAL GROUP” SUBTL, THE TIM NOT.WHILE THE CENSORSHIP IS G TRATN AMONG CHE VIEWERS, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY WAS CRICIZED UPON S STATI RELEASE FOR FAILG TO RPECTFULLY EXPLORE AND CELEBRATE MERCURY’S SEXUALY. THE BPIC ALSO DRASTILLY MIMIZED THE SUPERSTAR SGER’S RELATNSHIP WH HUTTON, WHO WAS HIS PARTNER FOR SEVEN YEARS, UNTIL MERCURY’S ATH 1991.MORE GREAT STORI OM VANY FAIR—  “I WILL GET YOUR CHILD TO LLEGE.” INSI RICK SGER’S PCH TO L.A. PARENTS.— THE WAR THAT ULD TRANSFORM—OR TEAR APART—HOLLYWOOD— “I AM A FAT LADY, AND I SERVE RPECT”: LDY WT ON HULU’S SHRILL— WHY JORDAN PEELE MIGHT NOT WANT YOU TO TOTALLY UNRSTAND USLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.JAY-Z, TA KNOWL, ANGELA BASSETT AND MORE TOAST 20 YEARS OF DEFG THE SOUL OF BLACK ART1 / 19CHEVRONCHEVRONPHOTOGRAPH BY ROGER KISBY.TA KNOWL AND MARK BRADFORDMOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYIS THIS THE BEGNG OF THE END OF THE WRERS STRIKE?BY NATALIE JARVEYYOHANA DTA

But Cha, a scene of two men kissg, the word “gay, ” and a clip of the ma character drsed women’s clothg were removed, acrdg to CNN. As the relatnship begs to terrate, Mercury tells At that he thks he might be bi-sexual, to which she rponds, “No Freddie, you are gay.

“Rather than homophobic, I thk (Cha’s censors) are sexphobic, ” LGBTQ activist and documentary filmmaker Fan Popo told CNN.

SOUTH KOREAN BROADSTER CENSORS GAY KISS ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’

One Che broadster ed uproar on Che social media when censored Rami Malek’s Bt Actor Osr acceptance speech, changg “gay man” to “special group” the subtl.

Although attus toward homosexualy are slowly changg Cha, LGBTQ ntent is still routely censored on mastream Che media. He dited his speech largely to Mercury, sayg, “We ma a film about a gay man, an immigrant, who lived his life jt unapologetilly himself.

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY OPENS CHA, M ALL THE GAY BS

” That, apparently, was too much for Che censors; the massive media platform Mango TV replaced “gay man” wh “special group” subtl, the Tim the censorship is g tratn among Che viewers, Bohemian Rhapsody was cricized upon s stati release for failg to rpectfully explore and celebrate Mercury’s sexualy. SEOUL — South Korean LGBTQ rights groups have nmned broadster SBS for censorg gay kiss scen om the 2018 film Bohemian Rhapsody, which foced on the life of rock band Queen lead volist Freddie Mercury.

SOUTH KOREAN BROADSTER CENSORS GAY KISS 'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'

It is rare for a South Korean broadster to show a film wh homosexual referenc. SBS also overlapped mosaics to obscure imag of other gay upl kissg the background. “SBS’s cisn to cut or obscure homosexual kiss scen was an sult to Freddie Mercury, as well as the entire sexual mori, ” Rabow Actn’s Executive Chairman Lee Jong-gul said.

A 2020 survey by the Pew Rearch Center found 44% of those surveyed South Korea said homosexualy should be accepted; 53% rpond should be disuraged. In the North Amerin and Wtern European untri surveyed, strong majori said they accept homosexualy society. SBS has received cricism for their removal of the homosexual kiss scen durg their holiday broadst of Bohemian Rhapsody.

However, viewers who watched both the theatril release and SBS’s broadst noticed several homosexual kiss scen were removed om the televisn broadst. “They thought was more important to have high viewer ratgs… [homosexualy] isn’t a hateful thg where ’s ls important than what a few people don’t want to see. ” “SBS, you cut out all the gay kiss scen the movie, but sce you uldn’t cut out the extras, you put an mosaic over them jt like you do wh cigarett…” “This is jt sultg and censorg sexual mori at this pot.

CHA CUTS ALL BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY GAY SCEN CREATG HUGE PLOT HOL

What did you want to achieve by edg a homosexual kiss scene? He was gay.

CHA REMOV ALL GAY DIALOGUE AND SCEN FROM ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY,’ ENDS UP CREATG PLOT HOL

Can’t gay people kiss? If we really opposed homosexualy, we wouldn’t have aired the movie at all.

This moment is one of several Bohemian Rhapsody that almost giv you a glimpse of the profound paradox of gay life before and durg the AIDS crisis, when queer culture, subversive and life-embracg, built self triumphantly at the edg of a society that refed to legimize queer inty even as gleefully exploed queer entertaers like Freddie Mercury. The rult is far more hurtful than your average unnscly homophobic film.

‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’ WH NO GAY SCEN? CENSORED FILM ANGERS CHE VIEWERS

Bohemian Rhapsody is a movie that nscly tri to posn a gay man at s center while strategilly disengagg wh the “gay” part as much as n, fltg briefly over his emotnal and sexual experienc and fixatg on his platonic relatnship wh an ex-girliend stead. It tak a hell of a lot of work to make a queerphobic film about one of the greatt queer ins history, but even though Bohemian Rhapsody was sort-of directed by Bryan Sger, who himself is openly gay, the movie somehow retreads queerphobic stereotyp stead of givg a fascatg, plex look at a real gay man. It also builds a whole annoyg subplot around the “predatory gay villa” trope, which is a tired, obnox cliché that Bohemian Rhapsody is even more problematic than ual bee ’s ed to imply that Mercury, a real-life gay man, was somehow rpted to beg queer by an opportunistic mic dtry parase who don’t really re about Freddie at all.

And then, a few scen later, he haltgly nfs to his wife that he might be bisexual; she is the one who has to rm him, rponse, that he is gay. Bohemian Rhapsody also ref to pict gay men havg meangful and eply emotnal relatnships.

And the pictn of AIDS as a punishment for gayns, which has found voice everythg om doomsday preachers to Stephen Kg novels, has historilly ntributed to the aths of lns by creatg a huge stigma around the disease, makg difficult for rearchers to ga public support the fight for the cure and g nsirable obstacl for many who are diagnosed to receive equable treatment.

SBS DRAWS FIRE FOR EDG OUT GAY KISS OM ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’

After they break up — bee Mercury is gay — Mercury p for At. Bohemian Rhapsody has to al wh the very real aspects of Mercury’s life, but don’t know how to, bee that way li homosexualy. The effect of this is that the film strongly impli that Mercury chose to be gay, to surround himself wh other queer people, at the risk of losg his “te” iends, his “fay.

It perpetually relegat queer inty to the celluloid closet and then is baffled when queer people wd up intifyg wh horror film villas and wrg fanfictn that rests straight characters as gay. Image source, 20th Century Fox/New RegencyImage ptn, Bohemian Rhapsody has been released Cha wh referenc to homosexualy eded outOsr-wng Freddie Mercury bpic Bohemian Rhapsody was released Cha on Friday, but referenc to the Queen sger's sexualy and AIDS diagnosis were censored. Several mut of footage were eded out of the film, cludg scen of two men kissg and the word "gay" has been signifint reactn to the film's release onle.

"Why is necsary to lete gay-related ntent?

'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY' CENSORED CHA: NO AIDS, GAY KISSG OR CROSS-DRSG

Homosexualy has been legal Cha for more than two s and the Che Society of Psychiatry removed om the untry's classifitn of mental disorrs 2001.