Television broadcasts of the Academy Awards in Asia censored the words ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’ in speeches that called for equal rights for homosexuals.

The speeches by actor Sean Penn and writer Dustin Lance Black were shown in full during live broadcasts of the Oscars that were screened across Asia, but viewers who caught recorded telecasts in the evening on STAR, an Asian satellite TV service that says it reaches more than 300 million viewers in 53 countries, noticed that the sound was removed whenever both men mentioned ‘gay’ or ‘lesbian’.

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