Woody Talk’s ‘Gay Monk’ interview blocked by censors

Thai censors stopped a popular television talk show from broadcasting an interview with a homosexual Buddhist monk on Sunday.

Woody Talk, the popular MCOT talker, revealed on Facebook they had to postpone its “Gay Monk” interview segment which was supposed to air Sunday night after censors objected:

“Apologies to our audience. Woody Talk has to postpone the broadcast of the ‘Gay Monk’ interview because the Censorship Committee is evaluating its appropriateness. The tape contains some hot issues!”

With 44,000 views, the episode’s teaser provided a few tasty quotes from the young monk, who discusses being a gay monk in don’t-ask-don’t-tell fashion without explicitly saying “I am a gay monk.”

“I am who I am, and I’m not going to pretend just to fit in,” the young monk says in the segment. “Gay people can make good monks too.”

Religion is a sensitive issue that the Thai media rarely touches, and if the tape is approved, this could be the first time on television a homosexual monk outs himself openly.

We hope truth and openness will win out for Woody Talk and the monk, but then again these are the same humorless censors who blurred Shizuka’s bikini body out of Doraemon.