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Contents:

• AMERIN GODS AIRS MOST GRAPHIC GAY SEX SCENE EVER
• TV'S 'AMERIN GODS': BLASPHEMY, GAY MLIMS, AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
• FANS FUR AS STARZ’S AMERIN GODS CUTS YET ANOTHER CHARACTER – THE FIERY GAY DJN, I
• PENIS TALK UNRCUTS GROUNDBREAKG GAY MLIM SEX SCENE AT AMERIN GODS Q&A
• HISTORY MA: ‘AMERIN GODS’ FEATUR TV’S MOST EXPLIC GAY SEX SCENE BETWEEN MLIMS
• AMERIN GODS BOSS BREAK DOWN THAT INTENSE GAY SEX SCENE (AND ALL THOSE PENIS)
• IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC
• THE MAGIC STICK: "AMERIN GODS" AIRS FIRE SKEETG GAY SCENE
• NEIL GAIMAN ON WRG AMERIN GODS' GAY LOVE STORY
• MLIMS WHO STRONGLY FAVOR OR FAVOR GAY MARRIAGE
• NEIL GAIMAN ON WRG AMERIN GODS' GAY LOVE STORY

AMERIN GODS AIRS MOST GRAPHIC GAY SEX SCENE EVER

Amerin Gods has been creded for airg the most graphic gay sex scene work televisn history on Sunday which featured two Mlim tense four-mute scene saw actors Moa Kraish and Omid Abtahi havg sex Abtahi's character's hotel room.

Once the thro of passn on a hotel bed, the actors bodi were transported by CGI to a mythil world before the dience's, they ntue havg sex until the I ejaculated fire on to Salim who lay on his down for vio Amerin Gods aired what has been hailed as the most explic gay sex scene ble TV history on Sunday between two Mlim characters Actors Moa Kraish and Omid Abtahi were shown pletely naked on a hotel room bed The scene end when Kraish's character ejaculated fire on to his partner Fans praised the episo for breakg boundari, labelg 'romantic', 'tenr', 'arog' and 'sensual'.

Televisn crics cludg the New York Tim's Abraham Riman have herald as the most erotic gay sex scene work televisn history.

TV'S 'AMERIN GODS': BLASPHEMY, GAY MLIMS, AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

It don’t matter what your race or sexualy is…everyone n unrstand and nnect wh that, ' he, who is gay, prevly revealed to Entertament Weekly that he ma the straight actors rhoot the scene after cidg their first attempt was not realistic enough.

'This is not my first gay sex scene so I am a veteran of this genre but for me was better, ma  a ltle b easier havg known Moa for 10 years. The show's gay executive producer ma them film twice until he believed was accurate enough TV experts cludg The New York Tim wrer Abraham Riman herald the scene as the most graphic TV history What is astonishg given his nvcg performance is that was the first sex scene, gay or straight, that Kraish, a New York native wh Paltian roots, had ever participated . " Its diverse st of characters clu a Mlim who intifi as eply relig spe his active attempts to practice homosexualy, a pictn of J who, Green's words, is seen as jt as flawed and vulnerable as the rt of the characters, and a trigger-happy town, based on Birmgham, Alabama, that worships the owner of a gun factory, who is the Roman god Vuln disguise.

In addn, the terview wh Entertament Weekly, Green scribed the character of Salim, the homosexual Mlim, as someone who has "the most borg relig attu out of everyone bee he is a practicg believer one of the big religns. " However, if the character is breakg one of the standard laws of Islam his homosexual acts, then he is not a "practicg believer" of a "borg big relign. It REALLY blows that Amerin Gods lost not one, but two leadg characters of lor (one of whom was part of one of the only healthy pictns of a gay Mlim relatnship on TV) the same week.

FANS FUR AS STARZ’S AMERIN GODS CUTS YET ANOTHER CHARACTER – THE FIERY GAY DJN, I

"I'm ntually surprised by how relevant and appropriate [the stori] I wrote 17, 18 years [ago] feel right now, " said Gaiman, who is straight, but ced wrers like Edmund Whe and Armistead Mp, and also the homoeroticism prent wh a translatn of Arabian Nights, as fluenc craftg the epic moment. Conversatns about the sex scene often volved to gay jok and crass ments about anatomy, which dimished the emotnal and historil achievement of the, who is gay, set the r tone early, when Gaiman praised the acplishment of translatg the scene for the mera.

PENIS TALK UNRCUTS GROUNDBREAKG GAY MLIM SEX SCENE AT AMERIN GODS Q&A

It's also been dubbed by a Paste Magaze cric as "the hottt gay sex scene I've seen on TV sce Sense8, maybe ever. The actors, who translated the scene brilliantly on the set, seemed unsure how to m to a ser discsn of gay sexualy once faced wh an dience. For "the rt of , the gay part of , " Abtahi said he watched gay porn for rearch.

'"The dience replied wh uneasy lghter -- a sentiment that was heightened when the next person to speak om the crowd was the print of Mlims for Progrsive Valu, who prefaced her praise for the show wh, "I learned so much about gay sex tonight! '"Overall, the nversatn skewed to sophomoric humor and surface-level observatns that rced the scene's subject matter to gay sex as nduct -- the who, what, and how of filmg the physil act -- vers the trickier and eper implitns of broadstg such a scene to an ternatnal dience a volatile era for global LGBT rights.

HISTORY MA: ‘AMERIN GODS’ FEATUR TV’S MOST EXPLIC GAY SEX SCENE BETWEEN MLIMS

Gaiman touched on this earlier the talk, when he discsed how issu like penis size and CGI are irrelevant when nsirg dience members who will boytt, prott, or otherwise react negatively to the show purely for s gay subject matter. Sunday night’s episo of Starz’s fantasy drama Amerin Gods featured two Mlim men engaged what many televisn crics and observers have lled the most explic gay sex scene TV history. But acrdg to shownner Bryan Fuller, the scene required re-shoots bee the first cut didn’t accurately pture the mechanics of gay sex.

On wrg the sex scene for his 2001 bt-seller, Gaiman says he found the procs challengg as a straight man, havg never before had gay sex. “I simply went, Okay, well, I’m about to be wrg gay sex whout ever havg had gay sex, but I’ve read an awful lot of books by an awful lot of people, I thk I n do this, ” Gaiman told Vulture.

AMERIN GODS BOSS BREAK DOWN THAT INTENSE GAY SEX SCENE (AND ALL THOSE PENIS)

Havg read those lewd l, Fuller said “We felt like for Salim, as a man g om a untry that throws you off the top of buildgs if you’re gay, a blow job an alley is probably his only sexual experience, ” Fuller said. And along wh the relig them, we also get a very explic gay sex scene—a batn you only see on Amerin ’s a tenncy among crics to scribe Amerin Gods as a Bryan Fuller show. This latt bacle wh what’s beg dubbed “the bt episo” of the season, urty of transgenrs, gay sex, and full-blown i.

IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC

The March 7 episo “The Rapture of Burng” featur our gay Mlim character Salim stayg at an enchanted hotel.

Salim flirts wh a gay bellboy named Kai (Noah J. The "promise of bety" apparently clus a gay Mlim havg sex wh another man, plenty of nudy and BDSM gear, var sexual acts cludg a uple of three-ways, and a fully naked Toni (who appears to have had top but not bottom surgery) on a swg.

Imam Daiyiee Abdullah, 65, is one of the few openly gay Mlim clerics. The percentage of Amerin Mlims who said society should accept homosexualy has doubled the last , to 52%, and is even higher among Millennials.

THE MAGIC STICK: "AMERIN GODS" AIRS FIRE SKEETG GAY SCENE

Ani Zonneveld says she receiv lls regularly om young gay and lbian Mlims who have been threatened by their fay or are aaid to reveal their sexual inty. Acrdg to a recent survey of more than 800 Amerin Mlims, 0% intified as gay or lbian.

NEIL GAIMAN ON WRG AMERIN GODS' GAY LOVE STORY

That diversy also appli to attus towards gay, lbian and transgenr people.

Mlims disagree on how to terpret the Pew survey that showed an creasg acceptance of homosexualy. Now, Qadhi often prefac his remarks about homosexualy by notg that “feelgs and clatns” are not themselv sful, and that homosexual acts should not be sgled out for special nmnatn.

MLIMS WHO STRONGLY FAVOR OR FAVOR GAY MARRIAGE

Mogahed herself me unr attack several years ago after a Gallup survey showed that no Brish Mlims – as , 0% – said homosexualy was morally acceptable. Right wg provotrs such as Milo Yiannopoulos seized on the survey to portray Mlims as a threat to gays and lbians. “Sometim people make rogatory remarks, like: There’s that gay imam, ” Abdullah said.

Some closeted LGBT Mlims feared of beg associated wh “the gay mosque, ” he said. Of the 804 Amerin Mlims polled, not one intified as gay or lbian.

If 92% of Amerin Mlims intified as straight, she said, then the remag 8% may be lbian or gay, even if they’re reluctant say so. Neil Gaiman penned the gay love story, which everybody is buzzg about, a good way.

NEIL GAIMAN ON WRG AMERIN GODS' GAY LOVE STORY

Gaiman, as an thor thought and learned that there had been several homoeroticisms the “Arabian Nights” and is a part of the Arab culture.