An advertising poster of two men in a passionate embrace has been censored by Brisbane City Council'. Lifestyle chairman Krista Adams has deemed the image too confronting and banned it, pending a review by the Advertising Standards Board.
The image in question, a parody of Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr's passionate beach embrace in the 1953 film From Here to Eternity , was designed as a publicity poster for the Brisbane Queer Film Festival which begins at the Powerhouse on
March 28. The ban could potentially expose the council to liability under the anti-discrimination act, by anybody who feels aggrieved by this decision. While many in Brisbane's gay community are 'outraged', Powerhouse artistic director Kris
Stewart played down council's decision. We got word from Krista there were reservations about one of the three images we had planned. My sense was it is a very sexualised image and the decision would have been the same
whether it was two men or a man and a woman.
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