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A gay kiss in Gladiator 2? Yes, babes... and let me spill the tea! Oh, hun, the internet nearly broke this week when rumours started swirling about a gay kiss being cut from Gladiator 2. But Ridley Scott, the legendary director himself, has stepped in to shut it all down faster than a queen spotting a fake designer bag. What’s the Tea? Word on the street (or should we say, the rumour mill) was that a steamy moment involving a gay kiss between Denzel Washington’s character and another male lead had been chopped from the film. Naturally, LGBTQ+ fans were up in arms, ready to throw shade and call out yet another case of queer erasure in Hollywood. But Scott isn’t having any of it. In a recent statement, he called the claims “absolute bollocks,” confirming that no such scene existed to b...

Maybe too few young LGBT+ friends know, remember or have even ever watched this movie, but Philadelphia was and still is one of the first movies that opened the eyes of the world on the stigma of AIDS, Homosexuality and the gay community. On this World Aids Day I am willing to take you back in time, to when in 1993 (Europe saw it in 1994) Philadelphia (the movie) was released in the cinemas across the USA, touching the hearts of so many people, and talking about a very harsh, too often unspoken, issue: HIV stigma and homosexuality. It is a movie that is hard to face, especially in some scenes, and because of the language used in it: but it is part of the real world that LGBT+ and HIV+ people had to face in those years. A movie that I remember having watched several times and different...

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Ridley Scott Clears the Air: No Gay Kiss Drama in Gladiator 2

PHILADELPHIA – the film about AIDS and Gay Love that shook the world.