‘Barbie’ banned in Kuwait, under fire in Lebanon for ‘promoting homosexuality’

Although Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” film has topped $1 billion in world ticket gross sales, some nations nonetheless aren’t on board.

The bubblegum pink flick received’t see a premiere in Kuwait to guard “public ethics and social traditions,” Reuters reported.

Lafi Al-Subaie, chairman of the movie censorship committee in Kuwait, has accused “Barbie” of “carrying concepts that encourage unacceptable habits and deform society’s values,” according to the Hollywood Reporter, which cited native media stories.

And in Lebanon, per Reuters, the movie has been accused of “selling homosexuality.”

Minister Mohammad Mortada, who’s supported by the highly effective political celebration and militant group Hezbollah, mentioned the film was discovered to “promote homosexuality and sexual transformation” and “contradicts values of religion and morality,” because it lessens the “significance of the household unit.”

Due to Mortada’s statements, Lebanon’s inside minister, Bassam Mawlawi, has requested the Normal Safety’s censorship committee to evaluation the movie and provides its suggestion, in response to Reuters.

The Put up reached out to Warner Bros. for remark.

Reuters reported that Lebanon was the primary Arab nation to have a homosexual delight week in 2017, however lately, there have been stricter crackdowns towards LGBTQ+ communities and their rights.

In July 2022, authorities within the nation “unlawfully banned peaceable gatherings lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) individuals,” in response to Human Rights Watch.

The “Barbie” film, which stars Australian actress Margot Robbie because the titular character and Ryan Gosling as Ken, follows the pair from Barbie Land to the “actual world.”

In an interview with Attitude final month, Robbie defined that she wished filmgoers to really feel “represented.”

“We wished Barbie Land to really feel extremely inclusive,” she instructed the UK outlet. “And we wished this movie to really feel like everybody was welcome. So, it was so necessary that, sort of, each individual that was, like, coming aboard the celebration would be capable of symbolize another person that may very well be watching this film.”

Nonetheless, Robbie, who served as an government producer of the movie, did affirm it doesn’t characteristic any homosexual Kens or Barbies.

The film, which premiered July 21, has been wildly widespread to this point, taking No. 1 on the field workplace the primary two days and raking in $70.5 million in gross sales.

Nonetheless, the movie was banned in Vietnam.

The fracas stems from a scene that features a map utilizing the “nine-dash line” — a set of line segments that symbolize China’s territorial claims within the South China Sea — which Vietnam claims violates its sovereignty.