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BRAZILIAN newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo published a same-sex couple kissing on the front of its weekend edition in defiance of “homophobic” Rio de Janeiro mayor Marcelo Crivella’s ban on LGBT-themed books.
It ran the picture along with the headline: “Crivella tries to censor comic with a gay kiss but is barred.”
Mr Crivella banned the sale of a comic book featuring a gay kiss at a book fair, claiming it was “unsuitable for minors.”
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From sexual innuendo about Blackpool Rock to Bob Dylan’s ‘God-almighty world,’ the corporation’s classist moral custodianship of pop music has created a roll call of censored artists anyone would feel honoured to join, writes NICK MATTHEWS