<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1655143694446,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"00000181-1f6f-d297-a5e3-1fef6dc50000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1655143694446,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"00000181-1f6f-d297-a5e3-1fef6dc50000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
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The new animated film features a kiss between two lesbian characters. The UAE announced the ban through the Media Regulatory Office of the country’s Ministry of Culture and Youth.
The movie “is not licensed for public screening in all cinemas in the UAE, due to its violation of the country’s media content standards,” the ministry said in a tweet.
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Saudi Arabia followed suit, announcing its own ban on Lightyear soon after the UAE tweet. With the two countries’ bans on the movie, rumors have circulated that the South Asian country Malaysia will follow suit.
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Disney has experienced backlash from the Middle East for containing LGBT scenes or actors.
In 2020, the film Onward was banned in Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia after a character implied she was a lesbian. More recently, multiple Middle Eastern countries refused to show Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness because of the lesbian parents of character America Chavez.
