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Emirates Airlines Accused of Censoring LGBTQ In-Flight Entertainment

The Middle Eastern company has touted diversity as a foundation of its brand.

Emirates Airlines, the world’s fourth largest airline, is editing out LGBTQ content from its in-flight entertainment, the Evening Standard reports.

The eliminated footage includes same-sex kisses from the Oscar-nominated film Ladybird and the BBC America drama Killing Eve.

Heterosexual love scenes that remain untouched reportedly include a semi-nude encounter between Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts in Notting Hill.

Emirates, the largest airline in the Middle East, is owned by the government of the Investment Corporation of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, where all sexual activity outside heterosexual marriage is a crime, with punishments ranging from imprisonment, floggings, beatings, torture, fines, deportation, and death.

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A passenger walks past an Emirates airlines logo at Dubai International Airport's terminal 3 in the United Arab Emirates on October 10, 2018. - (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP) (Photo credit should read GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP/Getty Images)

However, the company touted its progressive values in 2017, stating that “as a multicultural global company, Emirates does not discriminate against people of any race, religion or sexual orientation. Diversity is a foundation of our brand.”

A spokesperson for Emirates denies the airline has personally altered footage: “Emirates does not have rights to edit any licensed movie or TV content, as we acquire content produced by the studios and distributors. Emirates acquires mostly theatrical unedited versions of content, but as a family friendly airline serving an international audience, where there is excessive violence, sex, nudity or language, we opt to license the edited versions created by the studios/distributors."

A British gay couple was detained and humiliated by Emirates staff, who asked if they were brothers, in 2016.

Delta Airlines also made headlines in 2016 when they showed an edited version of Carol that removed the Oscar-nominated film's same-sex kisses.

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