{"id":18427,"date":"2023-07-22T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/?p=18427"},"modified":"2023-07-22T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T15:14:11","slug":"matty-healy-banned-from-malaysia-the-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/matty-healy-banned-from-malaysia-the-1975\/","title":{"rendered":"Matty Healy Banned From Malaysia: 1975 Singer Protested Anti-LGTBQ+ Laws & Kissed His Bassist On Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
While playing for the Good Vibes Festival in Malaysia’s capital city, Kuala Lumpur, on July 21, The 1975<\/em> frontman Matty Healy had a lot to say to the government about their strict anti-LGBTQ+ laws – which he conveyed with a profanity laden speech after kissing his male fellow band member on stage. This lead to the cancellation of the whole three-day festival overall as well. In 2019, Healy did something similar previously in Dubai, kissing a male fan onstage in protest of the UAE’s legislative persecution on LGBTQ people (in the UAE, being gay may result in up to 15 years in jail and for Healy it resulted in a ban from the country).<\/p>\n\n\n