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Brickbats

Brickbat: Beastly

Charles Oliver | 3.20.2017 4:00 AM

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The Russian government has barred children under 16 from seeing the new version of Beauty and the Beast because it has a gay character. Russian law bars what it calls gay propaganda aimed at minors.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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