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<b>Who was offended:</b> Gay people<br>
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...but maybe not all of them? "Bruno," starring Sacha Baron Cohen as a flamboyantly gay fashion journalist from Austria, hasn't even opened yet, and already <a href="http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/hot-button-humor-is-bruno-just-comedy-or-grotesque-satire-of-homosexuality-and-did-some-gays-bail-on-the-production/">many</a> in the LGBT community are concerned. Some people in our community may like this movie, but many are not going to be O.K. with it, Rashad Robinson, senior director of media programs for GLAAD told the New York Times. Sacha Baron Cohens well-meaning attempt at satire is problematic in many places and outright offensive in others.

'Bruno'

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Who was offended: Gay people

...but maybe not all of them? "Bruno," starring Sacha Baron Cohen as a flamboyantly gay fashion journalist from Austria, hasn't even opened yet, and already many in the LGBT community are concerned. Some people in our community may like this movie, but many are not going to be O.K. with it, Rashad Robinson, senior director of media programs for GLAAD told the New York Times. Sacha Baron Cohens well-meaning attempt at satire is problematic in many places and outright offensive in others.

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