Official denies Marvel film is banned but says kingdom ‘still trying’ to get Disney to cut 12 seconds referring to lesbian character with two mothers
Highlights
- Official denies film has been banned but says kingdom’still trying’ to get Disney to cut ‘LGBTQ references’ The cuts amount to ‘barely 12 seconds’ in which a lesbian character, America Chavez, refers to her ‘two moms’ Saudi Arabia’s general supervisor of cinema classification said the film will not be banned.
- But he disputed earlier reports that the film had been banned outright.
- Disney has so far declined the requested edits to the Doctor Strange sequel, slated for release next week.
- Saudi Arabia lifted a decades-long ban on all cinemas in late 2017, part of a series of social reforms aimed at shaking up the deeply conservative kingdom.