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Malaysia Cancels Music Festival Following Matt Healy’s Gay Kissing Stunt

The recent antics of The 1975 frontman Matt Healy at a festival in Kuala Lumpur — where he kissed a male bandmate on stage and slammed Malaysia’s homophobic laws — has angered conservatives and, with just weeks before state elections, left some LGBTQ Malaysians concerned about a governmet backlash against them.Headlining the Good Vibes Festival, the British pop-rock singer delivered a profanity-laden speech, with a wine bottle (or what at least appeared to be one) in hand.“Unfortunately, you don’t get a set of loads of uplifting songs because I’m fucking furious,” he said. “And that’s not fair on you, because you’re not representative of your government — because you’re young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progressive and cool.”While the speech was met with some cheers, some LGBTQ community members say it may worsen the oppression they face and undo the progress they’ve made.“He gets to fly out of the country and not face the consequences,” drag performer Carmen Rose told the Guardian, “while our people have to face the brunt of what just happened.”“Any foreign artist who comes here and who wants to advocate for us, they need to understand how to go about it,” she added.
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tv Entertainment Netflix First ‘Smiley’ & now another queer Spanish language Netflix series just got the chop
Rebelde won’t be returning for a third season, closing the curtain on the musical teen soap.The Mexican series was a belated sequel to a telenovela of the same name, which ran for two seasons, from 2004 to 2006, and was itself an adaptation of the hit Argentinian series Rebelde Way, which ran from 2002 to 2003.The original Rebelde was something of a pre-cursor to Elite, set in a prestigious private academy called the Elite Way School, but with a unique musical spin (and decidedly less steamy scenes in the school locker room).Netflix’s update followed a new set of students and aspiring pop stars who had to balance the day-to-day stresses of high school with their dreams of making it big in the music industry. For them, more than any exam or class project, everything rides on the school’s Battle Of The Bands, an annual event that could make or break their careers.Across its two seasons—which premiered and January and July of 2022—Rebelde explored the lives and loves of its young ensemble, including the groundbreaking groundbreaking lesbian relationship between Andi Agosti (Lizeth Selene) and Emilia Alo (Giovanna Grigio), as well as Argentinian transfer student Luka Colucci (Franco Masini) who is notably outed as queer early in the show’s run.It was Rebelde star Sergio Mayer Mori who broke news of the series’ cancellation in a recent interview with ¡Hola! Mexico:“It would be an honor for me to be able to do a third, fourth, and fifth [season], but that was no longer possible,” said Mayer Mori.
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