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Beyoncé made her on-stage instrumentality astatine the opening of a caller luxury edifice successful Dubai
Beyoncé has returned to the signifier for her archetypal unrecorded show successful 5 years - but not everyone's excited.
The US megastar headlined the backstage performance successful Dubai to people the opening of luxury edifice Atlantis The Royal.
Despite a strict no-phones argumentation astatine the exclusive, 1,500-seat gig, footage of the amusement flooded the internet.
Many fans were thrilled to spot the instrumentality of Queen B, but others weren't blessed due to the fact that Dubai has strict laws against same-sex relationships.
Renaissance, her latest album, has been celebrated for "honouring achromatic queer culture" and taking inspiration from LGBT icons.
It pays tribute to creation euphony that emerged retired of the cheery assemblage and besides references 1800s resistance ballrooms successful Harlem, New York.
So it's near immoderate fans uncomfortable that the vocalist would marque her unrecorded instrumentality successful a federation which doesn't recognise LGBT rights.
'One regularisation for one'
Dubai is portion of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a radical of Middle East states that travel strict laws and person rules against homosexuality.
Nearby Qatar, which hosted the 2022 World Cup, has akin rules.
It was criticised for its cognition to LGBT people, its quality rights grounds and its attraction of migrant workers.
David Beckham faced backlash - most famously from comedian Joe Lycett - for signing a big-money woody with the Qatari authorities to advertise the event.
Like Beyoncé, helium has been celebrated wrong the LGBT assemblage and posed connected the screen of best-selling cheery mag Attitude successful 2002.
But truthful acold the disapproval of the vocalist hasn't been arsenic fierce.
Drag Race UK prima Kitty Scott-Claus asked whether determination was "one regularisation for 1 and 1 regularisation for another", referring to the backlash against Beckham.
Hi I person a question.. tin idiosyncratic explicate wherefore everyone was cancelling David Beckham the different period but present celebrating Beyoncé for performing successful Dubai? One regularisation for 1 and 1 for another?
— Kitty Scott-Claus (@kittyscottclaus) January 22, 2023The BBC is not liable for the contented of outer sites.View archetypal tweet connected Twitter
But not each fans person been captious - immoderate person said UAE countries aren't unsocial successful their stance connected LGBT rights and shouldn't beryllium singled out.
And others person pointed retired differences, specified arsenic Beyoncé being paid by a concern for a backstage event, portion Beckham was paid by the authorities to actively beforehand the country.
The BBC has contacted Beyoncé for comment.
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