Even though
Kenya’s first gay-themed music video was banned by the film board — or perhaps
due to the ban, because that’s how we do — it’s proven to be massively popular
with audiences.
Because the
video features a scantily clad man and his boyfriend in bed and two women
kissing on a park bench, it was denied a license for release.
Pink
News reports the song is a remix of the Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s
2012 hit “Same Love.”
It was remixed
by Kenyan rapper Art Attack.
Though it was
only posted three weeks ago, it’s already been viewed on Youtube over
120,000 times. The hashtag #kenyangayvideo is also inspiring heated debate in
Kenya.
“We expected
that this will create controversy,” the artist told Reuters. “We expected that
a lot of people will talk about it but we didn’t expect the amount of publicity
it has received. The erotic scenes were meant to show that these people also
fall in love.”
In a news
conference, Ezekiel Mutua from the film classification board said the video
“currently circulating on YouTube consists
of lyrics that strongly advocate for gay rights in Kenya, complete with graphic
sexual scenes between people of the same gender, as well as depiction of nudity
and pornography.”
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