Italian TV Censors the Gay Love Scenes in "Brokeback Mountain"

http://gayswithoutborders.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/italian-tv-censors-the-gay/
12/13/2008

When Italian TV aired Brokeback Mountain recently, gay love scenes had been excised. The missing scenes featured a kiss between actors Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal along with a love scene in a tent.

This wasn't because the censor had a problem with sexual content per se ... a heterosexual love scene stayed in place.

State TV network Rai Due isn't exactly progressive. It has a fondness for airing biopics of popes. It has as-good-as banned the comedian Sabina Guzzanti - best known for her satirical attacks on the pope and Berlusconi.