Pride is one of the most talked about international films of 2014—and a likely winner at numerous awards shows. But the company distributing the movie's home release in the U.S. has scrubbed all references to homosexuality from the DVD cover.

Directed by Matthew Warchus, the film recounts the true story of queer activists who rallied behind striking mine workers in 1980s England. The film made countless Best of lists last year, and nabbed a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture.

The original UK packaging shows the cast marching in front of Parliament with pink balloons and banners reading "Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners."

The synopsis reads:

Pride is inspired by an extraordinary true story. It's the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers' families. Initially rebuffed by the Union, the group identifies a tiny mining village in Wales and sets off to make their donation in person. As the strike drags on, the two groups discover that standing together makes for the strongest union of all...

But on the U.S. version of the DVD, which dropped December 23, the banner has been Photoshopped out and replaced with more balloons.

The synopsis has also been de-gayed:

Pride is inspired by an extraordinary true story.  It’s the summer of 1984 and much of blue-collar Britain is on strike.  For one tiny Welsh village, the strike brings unexpected visitors – a group of London-based activists who decide to raise money to support strikers families and want to make their donation in person.

In this feel-good heartwarming comedy, two groups seemingly from worlds apart, discover that standing together makes for the strongest unions of all.

Notice the activists are just described as "London-based"—which we are now going to use as slang for homosexual.

But honestly, any one who watches Pride is going to know right quick that it's chock full of LGBT activism. So why the subterfuge? We guess, viewers have already spent their money by that point.

CBS Films, which released Pride stateside, says it doesn't handle DVD distribution, but is investigating the incident.

These aren't the first slings and arrows Pride has suffered: When it was released in America in September, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) branded Pride with an R rating, despite having zero violence or sex.

"It is outrageous, knee-jerk homophobia," says UK activist Peter Tatchell. "There's no significant sex or violence in Pride to justify strong ratings. The American classification board seems to automatically view any film with even the mildest gay content as unfit for people under 17."

Critics have long complained the MPAA, a secretive group that answers only to the studios, of having a double standards when it comes to LGBT content. Love is Strange, the 2014 drama about a middle-aged gay couple in a long-term relationship, was also given an R rating, as was 2013's GBF, even though it didn't contain a single F-bomb.

"Perhaps the ratings box should more accurately read 'For Homosexual References' or Too Many Scenes of Gay Teens Kissing'," said  GBF director Darren Stein at the time.

h/t: Pink News