Rami Malek's Oscar speech censored by Chinese broadcaster

By Jo-Anne Rowney

 

Rami Malek wins Best Actor (Image: 2019 Getty Images)

 

A Chinese Broadcaster removed a reference to homosexuality from Rami Malek's Oscar speech in its online broadcast.

 

Malek won Best Actor for his role as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, the Queen film biopic, and used his speech to talk about the late star and his life.

 

Mercury died from an Aids-related illness in 1991.

 

Malek referenced Mercury's sexuality as he said audience's clearly wanted more stories where they were shown people being "unapologetically" themselves.

 

Full Story: https://www.mirror.co.uk/film/rami-maleks-oscar-speech-censored-14056790

1 hour ago, car720 said:

Homosexuality is just not a feature of the Chinese male persona.

The female yes but not the male.

There are plenty of gay male Chinese. And yes, I do personally know some.

There are millions of gay men in China. And probably millions of lesbian women too. It is just hidden from view, as the country is extremely repressed, and the leadership is trying very hard to convey a fictitious image.

 

Our survey showed that from 2000 to 2015, the percentage of people who engaged in any kind of homosexual activity or who experienced homosexual desire greatly increased. However, do these results prove that the percentage of homosexuals in China has actually increased since 2000? Probably not.

Any statistical increase has two possible causes. The first is that the statistics reflect objective reality: Whatever is being surveyed truly has grown more common. The second possibility is that the phenomenon hasn’t really increased; it’s just that in previous surveys people did not dare to answer honestly. 

Our surveys on homosexuality in China led us to conclude the latter. In 2000, Chinese society held much more negative views of homosexuality than today. It would have taken immense bravery, at that time, to admit that you’d had any kind of gay experience. Thankfully, it is now less and less common for gay people to face serious discrimination.  

As the table shows, a significantly greater percentage of men than women responded affirmatively to each of the four questions in our 2015 survey.  Studies in other nations have produced similar findings.

 

http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1001348/gay-or-nay-chinas-changing-attitudes-toward-homosexuality

 

And no matter what some have said about Malek's performance, and the movie, I thought both were amazing, and deserving of all the praise and awards.

8 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

There are millions of gay men in China. And probably millions of lesbian women too. It is just hidden from view, as the country is extremely repressed, and the leadership is trying very hard to convey a fictitious image.

Being gay probably plays hell on their Chinese Social Credit Score.