{"id":41693,"date":"2022-02-14T15:28:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T06:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/14\/chinese-fans-claim-censorship-as-gay-storylines-removed-from-friends"},"modified":"2022-02-14T15:28:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T06:28:20","slug":"chinese-fans-claim-censorship-as-gay-storylines-removed-from-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41693","title":{"rendered":"Chinese fans claim censorship as gay storylines removed from Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans who had seen the programme before were quick to notice the absence of several scenes, including those relating to Ross\u2019s ex-wife, Carol, who is gay<\/p>\n<p>Friends has been stripped of its lesbian storyline for the Chinese re-release of the sitcom, prompting censorship concerns.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday a number of entertainment platforms including Tencent \u2013 which made headlines earlier this month for carrying a version <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/07\/original-fight-club-ending-restored-in-china-after-backlash\">of Fight Club<\/a> with a totally different ending \u2013 began airing the first season of Friends, which was originally broadcast in 1994.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/14\/chinese-fans-claim-censorship-as-gay-storylines-removed-from-friends\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans who had seen the programme before were quick to notice the absence of several scenes, including those relating to Ross\u2019s ex-wife, Carol, who is gayFriends has been stripped of its lesbian storyline for the Chinese re-release of the sitcom, prompti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,71,519,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-culture","category-television-radio","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41694,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41693\/revisions\/41694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}