{"id":2447585,"date":"2019-08-15T09:19:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=872024"},"modified":"2019-08-15T09:19:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:19:27","slug":"the-1975s-matt-healy-protests-anti-lgbtq-laws-in-dubai-by-kissing-male-fan-at-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/the-1975s-matt-healy-protests-anti-lgbtq-laws-in-dubai-by-kissing-male-fan-at-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1975\u2019s Matt Healy Protests Anti-LGBTQ Laws in Dubai by Kissing Male Fan at Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/MattHealy.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-1975\/\">The 1975<\/a> frontman Matt Healy kissed a male fan onstage during a show in Dubai on Wednesday in protest of the country\u2019s strident anti-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lgbtq\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lgbtq\" data-tag=\"lgbtq\">LGBTQ<\/a> laws. The Coca-Cola Arena show was the band\u2019s first-ever concert in the United Arab Emirates. During the song \u201cLoving Someone,\u201d Healy stepped off the stage and embraced a male fan before kissing him on the lips to cheers and screams from the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Healy tweeted after the show, \u201cThank you Dubai you were so amazing. I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll be allowed back due to my \u2018behaviour\u2019 but know that I love you and I wouldn\u2019t have done anything differently given the chance again\u2026But who knows maybe they will let me back in let\u2019s just wait and see :)\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">But who knows maybe they will let me back in let\u2019s just wait and see \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83e\udd7e\ud83c\udf0d (@Truman_Black) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Truman_Black\/status\/1161846382833090560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">August 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Homosexuality is illegal in the UAE, and can be punishable with up to 10 years in prison. The Healy kiss follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/see-rammstein-members-kiss-onstage-in-russia-to-protest-anti-lgbtq-laws-863818\/\">a similar on-stage demonstration<\/a> by the band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rammstein\/\">Rammstein<\/a>, where two band members kissed at a Moscow show in protest of Russia\u2019s own \u201cgay propaganda\u201d law.<\/p>\n<p>The 1975, this isn\u2019t the first time they\u2019ve openly expressed their politics. Last year the band donated funds to help open London\u2019s first LGBTQ center, and Healy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-1975-address-misogyny-2019-brit-awards-acceptance-speech-797106\/\">targeted male misogynists<\/a> in an acceptance speech at this year\u2019s Brit Awards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a bit wary of talking about it because I don\u2019t want to appear to be virtue-signalling, but me and the others in the band all felt it was obviously a good thing to put our money towards,\u201d Healy told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jun\/09\/the-1975-funding-for-lgbqt-centre-in-hackney-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the Guardian<\/a><\/em> about the LGBTQ center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-1975-dubai-kiss-872024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1975 frontman Matt Healy kissed a male fan onstage during a show in Dubai on Wednesday in protest of the country\u2019s strident anti-LGBTQ laws. The Coca-Cola Arena show was the band\u2019s first-ever concert in the United Arab Emirates. During the song \u201cLoving Someone,\u201d Healy stepped off the stage and embraced a male fan before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 07:18:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}