Barbie movie banned in Kuwait as Lebanon moves to censor film for 'promoting homosexuality'
news.sky.comhas taken more than $1bn (£784m) in box office sales worldwide - a cool "Barbillion" as it's been dubbed. It is the first film by a solo female director to surpass the billion-dollar benchmark.Mr Mortada said the storyline supports rejecting a father's guardianship, undermines and ridicules the role of the mother, and questions the necessity of marriage and having a family.The minister is backed by the armed Shi'ite armed group Hezbollah, whose head Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has recently ramped up rhetoric against the LGBT community, including a recent speech in which he said homosexual acts should be punished by death.He called on Lebanese authorities to take action against materials he deemed to be promoting homosexuality, including by "banning" them, and said homosexuality posed an "imminent danger" to Lebanon and should be "confronted".In the case of a homosexual act, Nasrallah said in late July, "from the first time, even if he is unmarried, he is killed".
