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...Events like today’s kiss-in help people see same-sex love as a regular part of everyday experience, and that’s the change society needs. There’s too little love in the world to allow any of it to be censored.,” he said...
...MEANWHILE IN GREECE ... Kiss Me, Quick The National Council for Radio and Television handed a 5100,000 obscenity fine to TV station Mega Channel for broadcasting a five-second smooch between two men. In response, about 30 gay-rights activists held a kiss-in outside the regulator's offices in central Athens. The kiss aired in the popular late-night drama series Close Your Eyes; the oft-aired embrace between Madonna and Britney Spears at the MTV Awards in August went uncensored. Gay TV : Absolutely Pink
...Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered Supporters Alliance’s (BLGTSA), Harvard’s main LGBT group and the overseers of Gaypril, ran just one opinion piece in The Crimson during the month: a preemptive defense of the group’s highly-debated “Kiss-in.” A month or so later, three students representing the “recently reformed” Queer Resistance Front responded on this page by eviscerating nearly everything the BGLTSA had done in April. They called Gaypril events “decontextualized performances...
...first-ever same-sex kiss on daytime television, visibility in and of itself need not be political at all. It therefore seems rather strange that the BGLTSA should appropriate a variety of political actions proper to—and effective in—very different historical circumstances. Kiss-ins, for example, were once a form of direct action that gave voice to a defiant and threatened sexuality—as in the infamous series of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) kiss-ins at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The BGLTSA’s kiss-in, by contrast...
...gays were everywhere. You may think that we—three soulful, intelligent homosexuals—were overjoyed at the sudden omnipresence of these alternatively-desiring young people. Certainly a variety of heartwarming spectacles were available for our delectation: from the festive kiss-in to drag bingo, from the Day of Silence to “Camp,” the cleverly-titled bgltq dance. With Gaypril, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) intended to “fight homophobia” and increase queer visibility at Harvard...