“What’s worse than an all white influencer trip?” read a post on Instagram. Sow cited controversial events in the country, including journalist Jamal Kashoggi’s murder.ĭiet Prada, a popular Instagram account that called out the fashion industry, shamed attendees for their participation. “Sick to see celebs and influencers shamelessly promoting this nonsense. “Would love to know which PR firm/s kingdom of Saudi Arabia hired to do its image rehab,” Sow wrote to Twitter. Though the efforts are aimed at boosting the economy while polishing Saudi Arabia’s image abroad and appealing to the young, the stars in attendance faced criticism from social media for being tone-deaf and “shameless.”Īminatou Sow, co-host of the “Call Your Girlfriend” podcast, called out the celebrities by sharing screenshots of their social media posts highlighting the Saudi Arabia trip. It’s a pivot from three years ago, when religious police stormed restaurants playing music and harassed women in malls for showing their face or wearing red nail polish. The bevy of Instagram stars, former Victoria’s Secret models, including Alessandra Ambrosio, and Hollywood actors such as Ryan Phillippe, Ed Westwick, Armie Hammer and Wilmer Valderrama were invited to Saudi Arabia over the weekend to promote the kingdom’s most eye-popping effort at showcasing the changes taking hold in the country, where more than half of its 20 million citizens are under 25 years old. What was unusual about these Instagram posts was that they were all tagged in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which caught the attention of some critics. Supermodels and social media mavens, their makeup artists and hair stylists in tow, posed at MDL Beast, a concert. STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS | USA TODAY | 5:25 pm EST December 23, 2019
MDL Beast was a three-day music festival that brought out a handful of social media influencers and celebrities to Saudi Arabia. However no matter how hot Phillippes butt is his accepting hundreds of thousands cash from Saudi Arabia a regime that imprisons and executes Gays is indefensible and reprehensible.And then the repugnant smcubag puke defends the country:Ĭellphone towers attacked as 5G conspiracy theory spreadsĪctors, models, social media influencers face backlash for attending festival in Saudi Arabia The Object Of My Affection (1998)Īgree overall great selection. Also, without these movies helping to push LGBTQ characters into the mainstream consciousness, we wouldn’t have the infinitely better queer films that we have today, many of which feature actual queer people both in front of and behind the camera.
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It was the ’90s, after all, and people were still trying to figure out how to talk about queer issues.
Still, it’s important not to separate these films from their time. (Also, many of the actors in them don’t identify as LGBTQ.) And there are plenty of jokes that would never fly today. Almost all of them contain a gay stereotype (or five). Some of these films have aged better than others. We’ve compiled a list of 13 queer comedies from the ’90s that you might be interested in revisiting while you’re stuck in quarantine. Often this was done through comedies, since laughter tends to be the easiest way of connecting with people. Hollywood started depicting queer characters and stories, sometimes more successfully than others. It was a decade of profound change when it came to how audiences viewed LGBTQ people in film.