{"id":2221659,"date":"2024-04-15T18:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T22:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/things-spun-wildly-out-of-hand-chaos-at-brussels-premiere-of-kristen-stewarts-new-lesbian-movie\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T18:12:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T22:12:06","slug":"things-spun-wildly-out-of-hand-chaos-at-brussels-premiere-of-kristen-stewarts-new-lesbian-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/things-spun-wildly-out-of-hand-chaos-at-brussels-premiere-of-kristen-stewarts-new-lesbian-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaos ensues at Brussels premiere of Kristen Stewart&#8217;s new lesbian film"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fthings-spun-wildly-out-of-hand-chaos-at-brussels-premiere-of-kristen-stewarts-new-lesbian-movie%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=2221659&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--><p>Over the weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/antifa-blm-vandalize-ice-building-burn-original-starbucks\/\" title=\"Antifa, BLM vandalize ICE building, burn original Starbucks\">chaos erupted<\/a> at the annual Brussels film festival during the premiere of Kristen Stewart&#8217;s lesbian movie &#8220;Love Lies Bleeding,&#8221; leading \u200bto verbal and physical altercations. Attendees described the atmosphere as &#8220;lesbophobic,&#8221; prompting a protest walkout by \u200bqueer audience members. Witnesses \u200brecounted feeling scared and threatened, with some\u200d calling the \u200cexperience traumatic and horrifying.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Things got out of hand over the weekend at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cannes-film-festival-blocks-russian-delegations-paramount-halts-russian-release-of-sonic-2\/\" title=\"Cannes Film Festival Blocks Russian Delegations, Paramount Halts Russian Release of \u2018Sonic 2\u2019\">annual film festival<\/a> in Brussels \u2014 specifically at the premiere of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kristen-stewart-claims-twilight-is-such-a-gay-movie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kristen Stewart<\/a>\u2019s new lesbian movie \u201cLove Lies Bleeding\u201d \u2014 resulting in both verbal and physical altercations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the screening of the thriller at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF) attendees said that \u201clesbophobic\u201d and \u201ctoxic\u201d comments were thrown at the screen in the divided theater, ending in a walkout protest by dozens of \u201cqueer\u201d audience members, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/global\/love-lies-bleeding-brussels-bifff-homophobia-kristen-stewart-1235970906\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Variety<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  magazine reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThings spun wildly out of hand,\u201d attendee Elina Fischer said, calling her experience \u201ctraumatic and horrible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe were afraid for our lives, because the kinds of people who say such things during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/photo-of-child-surrounded-by-men-in-fetish-sex-gear-wins-lgbt-award\/\" title=\"Photo Of Child Surrounded By Men In \u2018Fetish Sex Gear\u2019 Wins LGBT Award\u00a0\">film screening<\/a> are the kinds of people who assault us,\u201d she added. \u201cSo we got scared and had to get out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">la <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/honte?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#honte<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bifff_festival?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bifff_festival<\/a> qui laisse des commentaires et insultes transphobes, lesbophobes et misogynes, for\u00e7ant une 80aine de personnes a sortir de la sc\u00e9ance car trop mal a l\u2019aise et qui pour seule r\u00e9ponse appellent la police. La honte. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s1B44UtsDa\">pic.twitter.com\/s1B44UtsDa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 camarade miel \ud83d\udd3b (@lululatuile) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lululatuile\/status\/1779229626671280609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOnce we stood up, we started hearing insults directed at us,\u201d another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-parents-say-school-board-gag-rule-stifles-criticism\/\" title=\"Virginia Parents Say School Board Gag Rule Stifles Criticism\">attendee told<\/a> the outlet. \u201cIt became something much nastier. Violent. We were overwhelmed, crying and we said to each other that this wasn\u2019t normal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe shouted so that they could hear us inside too, to spoil their experience of the film a bit, just as they had spoiled ours,\u201d the person added, about the shouting from the movie lobby by those who walked out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a longer statement shared with the outlet, the attendees said, \u201cWe know the difference between standard jokes and lesbophobic insults and commentary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhen audience members applaud during [what we feel to be] a rape scene, when they pantomime masturbation and catcall the actresses on screen by shouting \u2018get naked,\u2019 \u2018she wants c**k,\u2019 \u2018disgusting,\u2019 and \u2018dirty dykes\u2019 at the slightest scene of lesbian intimacy, once spectators stand up to leave the theater or ask for respect, only to be booed, insulted and physically assaulted, and once dozens of lesbians leave the theater in tears, dirtied, degraded and shocked, we can\u2019t speak of a \u2018good-natured\u2019 atmosphere,\u201d the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BIFFF press chief Jonathan Lenaerts confirmed police were called out to deal with the altercations and walkouts during the premiere, adding, \u201c10 people out of 1,400 is already 10 too many.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe had programmed this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/documentary-blows-the-lid-off-the-400-million-zuckerberg-effort-to-elect-biden\/\" title=\"Documentary Blows the Lid off the 0 Million Zuckerberg Effort to Elect Biden\">film specifically<\/a> because it touched on the LGBT community,\u201d Lenaerts said. \u201cWe thought it was great that [this kind of] fantasy filmmaking was also opening to this community, giving us the perfect opportunity to welcome a new audience to our festival.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe have a duty to contextualize,\u201d he added. \u201cTo make sure that all communities feel welcome and on the same footing. The humor in the room should never be targeted and mean spirited, and all exceptions are intolerable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Later, BIFFF released a statement calling the previous evening\u2019s events \u201cunacceptable\u201d and issued an apology to the audience for \u201cdiscriminatory remarks against any community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaos erupted at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival during the premiere of Kristen Stewart&#8217;s lesbian thriller &#8220;Love Lies Bleeding.&#8221; Attendees reported verbal and physical altercations, with some labeling the atmosphere as &#8220;lesbophobic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":2221660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Kristen-Stewart.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2221659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Kristen-Stewart.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221659","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}