Gloria and that gay kiss covered by a black hat

It is a Rai that takes one step forward and three steps back that we are seeing on stage these days, between press releases that everyone is thought to agree with and questions about migration that make some “embarrassed”. The latest one is up RaiPlay where, in view of the release of Glorythe new drama with Sabrina Ferilli on air starting from Monday 19 February on Rai1, a sort of special package is available so that the public becomes curious about the series and can give it a chance. Except that, at a certain point, while the director Fausto Brizzi tells the content of the story, here are the images of a civil union between two men celebrated on the stage by Gloria-Ferilli herself, and here's one black spot which suddenly appears on the screen when the newlyweds come closer to give each other a kiss. What at first glance seemed like a black mark is, in reality, a hat that one of the spouses approaches to ensure that that kiss remains between them – for the purpose of the success of the idea it is understood that that hat peeps out on the altar because one of the two men is a carabiniere.

It is Rai Fiction itself that explains this It's not about censorship because the one we see backstage at Glory on RaiPlay is the scene as it was written by the screenwriters. And we believe it, for goodness sake, except that we have a doubt: Why did the script choose to use this trick? It is true that every now and then it happens, especially in cartoons, that the two protagonists choose to kiss away from prying eyes out of modesty and a hint of shame, however it makes us think a little about the fact that someone thought it was appropriate to resort to the same one also found in Glory. It must have been a clever way to overcome the problem of making “homosexual propaganda” in prime time on Rai1 while a right-wing government is in power in Italy? Or maybe it was because, in this historical period, to show a man belonging to the police Can kissing another man be interpreted as a wrong message by the Vannacci on duty?

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Alas, we don't have the answer, even if we know that Rai in the past had several problems showing homosexual kisses. It happened in 2012, when Rai4 chose to stop broadcasting the Spanish series Physics or Chemistry because it told the uncensored love story between Fer and David, but also in 2016, when Rai2 decided to cut the scene of Connor's kiss with another man in the Shonda Rhimes series The rules of the perfect crime – a case broke out and Rai chose to broadcast the offending episode as it was originally conceived two days later -. It is true that some progress has been made – let's think about I wanted to be a rock star it's at A professor -, but it is also true that this topic continues to be treated with white gloves and with the handbrake on, as if you were afraid of something – in A professorfor example, land scenes of homosexual love have always been very sweetened, and we think it has something to do with the fact that they would be broadcast on Rai1 -. Regardless, it would be right to remember that kisses are all the sameand that if we think that two men kissing is “dangerous” then we have a problem called homophobia.

Source: Vanity Fair

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