{"id":1306,"date":"2014-10-02T20:43:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T01:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2014-10-02T20:43:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T01:43:26","slug":"mpaa-once-again-over-censors-lgbt-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1306","title":{"rendered":"MPAA once again over-censors LGBT film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The British LGBT breakout success film\u00a0<em>Pride\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2014\/oct\/02\/pride-us-censors-accused-of-homophobia\">has received an &#8220;R&#8221;-rating <\/a>from the Motion Picture Association of America. This means that in most cinemas, children under the age of 17 will not be allowed to see the film unless they are accompanied by a guardian.<\/p>\n<p>As we reported a few months ago, another gay-themed film with no sex or violence entitled\u00a0<em><a title=\"MPAA Continues to Unfairly Target LGBT Films\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1169\">Love is Strange<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>received an &#8220;R&#8221;-rating from the MPAA as well, presumably because of that movies homosexual content.<\/p>\n<p>The MPAA has a long history of trying to censor LGBT films by rating them R or NC-17 for content that would be given a much tamer rating if the content were more heteronormative. Here is the trailer for\u00a0<em>Pride\u00a0<\/em>which starts a limited US release this week:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pride - Official Launch Trailer (2014) Bill Nighy, Andrew Scott, Imelda Staunton [HD]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vsFY0wHpR5o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The British LGBT breakout success film\u00a0Pride\u00a0has received an &#8220;R&#8221;-rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. This means that in most cinemas, children under the age of 17 will not be allowed to see the film unless they are accompanied by a guardian. As we reported a few months ago, another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}