Broadcaster chided for cutting Brokeback Mountain (Reuters)

[Drew Wilson]

ROME (Reuters) - Homosexuals and free speech advocates have criticized Italian state broadcaster RAI for cutting the most explicit scenes when it showed the film Brokeback Mountain.

The film, which won three Oscars in 2006, tells the homosexual love story of two cowboys over the years while they are both married and have families.

The version which the state broadcaster ran on Monday night, starting at 10:45 p.m., did not include scenes where the two cowboys, played by Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger, first make love in a tent and a later kissing scene.

"Don't they think an adult audience could have withstood kisses and effusive love between two men?" Auerilio Mancuso, the head of Italy's largest gay rights group, Arcigay, was quoted as saying in the daily newspaper La Repubblica.

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There's a switch, complaints about TV not being exlicit enough.

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There's a switch, complaints about TV not being exlicit enough.

I was thinking the same thing LOL.

It is strange though that people bitch about seeing too many bare breasts...and then bitch because they can't see gays having sex or kissing. You would really think it would be the other way around. At any rate, I don't think that anything on either side should be edited. It's isn't like this was shown on national Television. These are adults (or at least should have been....all adults...I hope to God no one took their children to see this, wtf?) that should have known what the movie was about. I am sure they don't need to be protected from what the movie contains. this is ridiculous.