Flavio Mendoza
was involved in a controversy, received strong criticism and even had his Instagram account closed due to
an image that went viral on social networks, in which he appears with his four-year-old son Dionisio on the stage of one of his Stravaganza shows.
It all started when the American conversational politician and activist Charlie Kirk shared on his networks the capture of the video in which Flavio is giving his son the microphone so he can say a few words at the end of the show.
"File this under things that make you support capital punishment
," was Kirk's reprehensible message that he shared with the image, without any context.
Flavio Mendoza with his son, Dionisio.
Photo: Movilpress.
Archive.
However, he later clarified: "I watched the full video. The photo is of a gay Argentine couple (artists) and their son, and it seems to be a bad angle.
The boy was nervous when speaking in front of a crowd and did not let go of the leg of the man, so the microphone was lowered towards the boy's face."
Despite the clarification,
the photo went viral and Flavio continued to receive strong questions.
One of them was from Eduardo Bolsonaro himself, son of the former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro.
"In one image, the summary of the decline of the West," said the current federal deputy for the state of São Paulo on Twitter.
Eduardo Bolsonaro's reprehensible comment about Flavio Mendoza.
Twitter.
And then, totally confused about the origin of the image, he launched:
"In the US it is increasingly common for children to participate in a drag queen show like this."
The discharge of Flavio Mendoza
For this reason, Flavio had his Instagram account blocked.
So, he came out to clarify on his Twitter.
“Someone uploaded a photo of me and my son from a horrible angle maliciously and they blocked my Instagram.
Please report any photo or person behind this, thank you, ”he said, outraged by everything that happened.
Flavio Mendoza's download on Twitter.
"Someone maliciously uploaded a photo of me and my son from an angle totally taken out of context and they closed my Instagram, messing with a child and my image. Does it bother you so much to be happy?
Does it bother you that I'm a gay man who He managed to be a father and a successful career? It seems so.
Well, one more fight that they are not going to win me, "added the creator of Stravaganza in his defense.
In
Intruders
(America, Monday to Friday at 1:30 p.m.), Mendoza assured: "Everything that happened is crazy. It is a capture of the video where Dionisio goes up at the end and sings 'Come on, come on Argentina'. You feel sorry for the fight that all of us have had to be a father and have a career...", said the choreographer, who assured that he will initiate legal action and for that he hired Fernando Burlando.
Flavio Mendoza referred to everything that happened in Intruders.
Capture TV.
"Someone from the United States and Brazil criticized me... All very strange. He is a decadent. He has to investigate, in what context is this photo," added Flavio, against Bolsonaro.
And he emphasized:
"Here there is homophobia, discrimination,
also a violation of the rights of the child. This image is doing great damage."
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