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Pop band The 1975’s set stopped in Malaysia after onstage kiss

Matty Healy of the band The 1975 performs at the 2019 Governors Ball Music Festival at Randall's Island Park, New York, the United States, on June 1, 2019 [File: Andy Kropa/Invision/AP]

United Kingdom pop band The 1975 had its set at a Malaysian music festival cut short after frontman Matty Healy kissed a male bandmate onstage and criticised the country’s anti-LGBTQ laws.

Homosexuality is a crime in Muslim-majority Malaysia and human rights groups have warned of growing intolerance against the country’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

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