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

19Nov

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

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...

Italy: gay couple kicked out of a beach for a kiss.

Don't worry, we wouldn't be here talking about it if it happened between a boy and a girl. Versions of the facts - those from the manager of Fregene Navy Beach and from the two boys roughly sent away for a kiss - that will never match, but we didn't expect them to be so. The event was reported in a press release by Fabrizio Marrazzo, spokesman for the Gay Center Italy (which helps many cases of discrimination and violence every day), who made sure the incident got the attention of the media: "Last weekend in Fregene, Fiumicino, Rome, a couple of 20-year-old boys, while taking selfies and exchanging a kiss, at the Lido of the" Marina Militare "Fregene, were interrupted by a swimmer who threatened them to call the 'executive marshal to have them kicked out the beach’; the boys repl...

Italy: crime of passion. Killer revealed and arrested.

Friends of the victim have quickly shared the picture of the killer on social medias. The Killer of a young gay man in Italy (Rome) has quickly been identified and arrested for the murder of Alessandro Borrelli, who was killed yesterday afternoon shortly after 6.30 pm in his apartment on the ground floor of Via Cagliari, in the suburbs of Ciampino - Rome. It is not yet clear whether Stefano, who managed to save himself by miracle, was his new partner or just a friend, but it is thanks to the witness of the survivor that police immediately found the killer. Crime of passion is the main hypothesis followed by the investigators, even if other options are not excluded. There may be other people involved. Terror, however, in the complex of public housing, where gunshots rang out sudden...