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Disney cuts same-sex kiss from Rise of Skywalker in Singapore

Movies Earlier today
Disney removed a lesbian kiss from the latest Star Wars film for its release in Singapore. Without the scene, the country’s media regulator allowed the film to open with a PG-13 rating.
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· 12 hours ago

Disney cut a brief kiss between 2 female characters in "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" from screenings in Singapore. It was the first overt appearance of gay characters in a "Star Wars" film.

Disney Removes Same-Sex Kiss From ‘Star Wars’ Film in Singapore
The scene, which Disney cut to preserve a PG-13 rating in the conservative nation, was the first overt appearance of gay characters in the “Star Wars” franchise.
nytimes.com
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· 24 hours ago

. cut the lesbian kissing scene in the new Star Wars film for the versions that screened in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates, where homosexuality is a criminal offense.

Star Wars lesbian kiss cut from Singapore and Dubai screenings
The latest installment of the Star Wars saga opened to global audiences this week, but some viewers were not permitted to see a lesbian kissing scene between background characters.
washingtonexaminer.com
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· 11 hours ago

Disney cuts lesbian kiss from latest Star Wars movie in Singapore; country's media regulator allows 'Rise of Skywalker' to keep PG-13 rating if scene omitted:

Disney cuts lesbian kiss from Star Wars in Singapore | CBC News
Disney has cut a lesbian kiss from the latest Star Wars movie, one of the season's top films, Singapore's media regulator says, so that more children can watch it.
cbc.ca
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· 16 hours ago

Singapore’s media regulatory board, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), told 'The Guardian' in a statement the studio specifically removed the clip so that the film could open with a PG-13 rating

Same-sex kiss scene from ‘Rise of Skywalker’ cut from film’s Singapore version
According to the outlet, Singapore’s censorship guidelines pertains that only people over 18 can see films that contain LGBT content or subplots
thehindu.com
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· 9 hours ago

when your representation can be easily edited out for foreign markets, its not representation...its virtue signaling

Disney cut a brief kiss between 2 female characters in "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" from screenings in Singapore. It was the first overt appearance of gay characters in a "Star Wars" film.
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· 10 hours ago

You can barely see it in the US version either because they made it as short and insignificant as possible

Disney cut a brief kiss between 2 female characters in "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" from screenings in Singapore. It was the first overt appearance of gay characters in a "Star Wars" film.
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· 11 hours ago

I took my kids to see in . This scene wasn't cut here. Nobody cared. Is less tolerant than ? The sequence featured many varieties of alien-on-alien first-basery. Does really believe two human women kissing is just too out-there?

Disney cut a brief kiss between 2 female characters in "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" from screenings in Singapore. It was the first overt appearance of gay characters in a "Star Wars" film.
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· 11 hours ago

the moment was so brief I wouldn't even have noticed it was a gay kiss if I hadn't seen articles about it prior to the movie

Disney cut a brief kiss between 2 female characters in "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" from screenings in Singapore. It was the first overt appearance of gay characters in a "Star Wars" film.
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· Dec 21

Some of the more negative responses to Star Wars: The are about the film’s attitude to gender, race and sexuality.

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