Anton Dolin, a popular Russian film critic, wrote on Facebook that “all scenes with kissing, sex and oral sex between men have been cut out…
A Russian media company has reportedly cut all scenes featuring gay sex and men kissing from the Elton John biopic Rocketman because of laws banning “homosexual propaganda”.
The cuts were first reported by Russian journalists after the film’s 30 May release in Moscow.
Conservative supporters of the law said it was needed to protect traditional family values and minors from “non-traditional sexual orientation”.