{"id":1820643,"date":"2023-01-23T14:20:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T19:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1820643"},"modified":"2023-01-23T14:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T19:24:49","slug":"beyonce-questioned-for-accepting-24m-to-perform-in-dubai-despite-its-anti-lgbtq-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beyonce-questioned-for-accepting-24m-to-perform-in-dubai-despite-its-anti-lgbtq-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonc\u00e9 Questioned For Accepting $24M To Perform In Dubai Despite Its Anti-LGBTQ Laws"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fbeyonce-questioned-for-accepting-24m-to-perform-in-dubai-despite-its-anti-lgbtq-laws%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=1820643&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-->\n<p>Artistes performing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/beyonce\">Beyonce\u0301<\/a> Some fans are calling out her for choosing to hold her very first. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/music\">concert<\/a> In four years, Dubai, a city well-known for its strict anti-terrorism policies, has seen a significant increase in business.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lgbtq\">LGBTQ<\/a> laws.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the 41-year-old singer accepted $24 million for the show. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-11664837\/Beyonce-faces-criticism-24M-private-performance-Dubai-amid-anti-LGBTQ-policies-UAE.html\">per<\/a> The Daily Mail<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeyonce\u0301 is a huge icon for many gay people,\u201d Bev Jackson, co-founder of LGB Alliance, is a proud mother. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2023\/01\/22\/beyonce-falls-foul-lgbt-fans-exclusive-dubai-concert\/\">told<\/a> Sunday Telegraph \u201cLGB Alliance is deeply therefore disappointed that Beyonce\u0301 has agreed to give a lucrative concert in Dubai, where same-sex sex acts are a criminal offense, potentially punishable by death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many fans pointed out that Beyonce\u0301 had previously mentioned her uncle, \u201cthe most fabulous gay man\u201d During her 2019 GLAAD Media Awards acceptance speech she was able to share this knowledge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was brave and unapologetic during a time when this country wasn\u2019t as accepting,\u201d In part, the Grammy Award winner stated this during her speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWitnessing his battle with HIV was one of the most painful experiences I\u2019ve ever lived. I\u2019m hopeful that his struggles serve to open pathways for other young people to live more freely. LGBTQI rights are human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many social media critics were especially upset that Beyonce\u0301 would perform in Dubai because, in their estimation, she doesn\u2019t need the money.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u201d Kitty Scott Claus posted a tweet from star Kitty Scott-Claus \u201cHi I have a question \u2026 can someone explain why everyone was canceling David Beckham the other month but now celebrating Beyonce\u0301 for performing in Dubai? One rule for one and one for another?\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hi I have a question.. can someone explain why everyone was cancelling David Beckham the other month but now celebrating Beyonc\u00e9 for performing in Dubai? One rule applies to all, but one rule applies to all.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kitty Scott-Claus (@kittyscottclaus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kittyscottclaus\/status\/1617181623878918145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many others also agreed with this sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re that rich \u2026 largely, if not entirely, through the fierce loyalty of LGBTQ+ fans \u2013 what amount of money is simply too much to turn down to perform in a homophobic country?\u201d One user on Twitter wrote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeyonce\u0301 isn\u2019t [an] LGBTQ+ ally when she\u2019s performing for money in Dubai and she literally doesn\u2019t need a penny of it,\u201d One more was reached.<\/p>\n<p>Although the singer had banned recording devices and phones from the venue during the performance, footage from the Dubai show was posted on social media. Beyonce\u0301\u2019s 11-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy, took to the stage to perform the song \u201cBrown Skin Girl,\u201d It was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are all my brown skin girls? Give it up for my baby, my brown skin girl, Miss Blue Ivy Carter,\u201d Beyonce\u0301 can be heard saying in one of the recordings. <\/p>\n<p>The concert was to help launch The Atlantis Royal hotel in Dubai. In December 2018, she performed her last live performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performing artist Beyonce\u0301 is getting called out by some fans for choosing to hold her first concert in four years in Dubai, a city known for strict anti-LGBTQ laws. The 41-year-old singer reportedly accepted a $24 million payment for the show, per The Daily Mail. \u201cBeyonce\u0301 is a huge icon for many gay people,\u201d LGB &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1820646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[16136,13098,16135,15819,16137,7750,7418,11880],"class_list":["post-1820643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-24m","tag-accepting","tag-anti-lgbtq","tag-beyonce","tag-dubai","tag-laws","tag-perform","tag-questioned"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820643","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\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1820646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}