{"id":1514678,"date":"2022-06-14T08:05:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T12:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1514678"},"modified":"2022-06-14T08:05:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T12:05:11","slug":"united-arab-emirates-bans-disneys-lightyear-over-lesbian-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/united-arab-emirates-bans-disneys-lightyear-over-lesbian-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"United Arab Emirates Bans Disney\u2019s \u201cLightyear\u201d over Lesbian Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funited-arab-emirates-bans-disneys-lightyear-over-lesbian-kiss%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1514678&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">UBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 The United Arab Emirates on Monday banned the upcoming Pixar animated feature \u201cLightyear\u201d from showing in movie theaters after its inclusion of a kiss between two lesbian characters.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by the UAE comes as Malaysia also reportedly will ban the film, raising the possibility other Muslim-majority nations could follow suit on one of Disney\u2019s biggest animated films of the year as the film industry comes out of the depths of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Emirates, home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, announced through its Media Regulatory Office of the country\u2019s Ministry of Youth and Culture that the film would not be opening in the country this Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The film \u201cis not licensed for public screening in all cinemas in the UAE, due to its violation of the country\u2019s media content standards,\u201d the office said in a tweet. \u201cThe office confirms that all films screened in cinemas across the country are subject to follow-up and evaluation before the date of screening to the public, to ensure the safety of the circulated content according to the appropriate age classification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The office did not elaborate on the tweet and did not immediately respond to questions from The Associated Press. The tweet included an image of the film\u2019s poster, with the profile image of its main character Buzz Lightyear with a \u201cno\u201d symbol over it in red.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Movie theaters in the UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula, had already advertised showtimes for the film. But over the weekend, a social media campaign with the Arabic hashtag \u201cBan Showing Lightyear in the Emirates,\u201d caught the attention of conservative Emiratis. They described showing a lesbian couple on screen as being against their culture and religion.<\/p>\n<p>The movie, with actor Chris Evans voicing the inspiration for the Buzz Lightyear action figure from the \u201cToy Story\u201d films, includes a female character voiced by actress Uzo Aduba kissing her female partner.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE, many other countries in the wider Mideast, is a Muslim-led nation that criminalizes same-sex relationships. The U.S. State Department warns that Islamic, or Shariah, law in the UAE can include the death penalty for same-sex conduct, while Dubai can levy a 10-year prison sentence and Abu Dhabi allows for up to 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>However, such prosecutions are rarely reported and LGBTQ individuals do live in the skyscraper-studded city-state of Dubai, home to the long-haul carrier Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>The $200 million \u201cLightyear\u201d is expected to be a major draw for Disney, with analysts estimating it could gross over $100 million in its first weekend.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Studios have allowed censors to cut films in global distribution for content in the past, including in the Mideast market. Recently, Disney has faced protests from activists and its own staff over what they described as CEO Bob Chapek\u2019s slow response in publicly criticizing Florida legislation that opponents dubbed the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in late March signed the bill, which forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.<\/p>\n<p>The moment had been earlier cut from the film but was restored after Pixar employees protested Disney\u2019s response to Florida\u2019s bill.<\/p>\n<p>The movie also may be banned in Malaysia as well. The Star, the country\u2019s top English-language newspaper, cited an anonymous, nongovernment source as saying that Lightyear will not be shown in Malaysian cinemas. No reasons were given. A newspaper in the Persian Gulf island kingdom of Bahrain similarly has speculated the film wouldn\u2019t be shown there.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from Malaysia\u2019s Film Censorship Board and the Home Affairs Ministry, as well as The Walt Disney Co., could not be immediately reached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 The United Arab Emirates on Monday banned the upcoming Pixar animated feature \u201cLightyear\u201d from showing in movie theaters after its inclusion of a kiss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}