Harry Styles Angers Many Over His Comments About Gay Love Scenes

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In a recent interview, Styles spoke about the gay love scenes in his new film, My Policeman

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The film is set in 1957 and centers around a love triangle between a closeted cop, his wife, and a museum curator

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The film starts Styles as the cop, Emma Corrin as his wife, and David Dawson as his secret lover

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"So much of gay sex in film is two guys going at it, and it kind of removes the tenderness from it," Styles told Rolling Stone

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"There will be, I would imagine, some people who watch it who were very much alive during this time when it was illegal to be gay."

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