In the aftermath of the sensels killgs Orlando, Florida, a hashtag began trendg on social media: #TwoMenKissg. It was a reference to an terview where the shooter's father suggted his son's motivatn was homophobia, rellg an cint where his son had bee enraged by the sight of two men kissg. In rponse, everyday men across the untry took to their social media channels to post pictur and selfi kissg iends, lovers, strangers. They were all followg the footsteps of generatns of gay photographers, everyone om Robert Mapplethorpe to Alasdair McLellan to more obscure nam like Alv Baltrop, who sisted through the years rerdg same-sex affectn - to affirm their existence a world that nied their sexualy, to rerd their own history, or simply to exalt, to e a phrase om morn parlance, the ia that "love is love." Here, to ci wh gay pri month, is a selectn of imag om a variety of sourc - the new Mapplethorpe retrospective at Los Angel County Mm of Art, a new exhib on 1970's queer culture at the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art, Tom Bianchi's celebrated monograph on the Fire Island P - that together celebrate a simple but powerful image: #TwoMenKissg.
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GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY
We’ll never fet watchg the inic gay kissg scen for the first time. * two gay guys kissing *
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TWO MEN KISSG: A PHOTO CELEBRATN OF GAY PRI
From TV's first same-sex kiss ever to Disney's first gay kiss on "Star vs. the Forc of Evil," the are the moments that refed televisn and ma history. * two gay guys kissing *
A gay uple, as picted by Unstable Diffn.
The gay kissg scen had on the edge of our seats!