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• SHOUT OUT LOUD! THE OUT GAY MAN WHO MA KISS SUPERSTARS, GOT THEM TO ROCK HALL OF FAME
• ITC CLEARS 'THE BILL' GAY KISS
• ITV CLEARED OVER GAY KISS THE BILL
• KISS FRONTMAN PL STANLEY DON'T MD IF YOU THK HE'S GAY
• LOBBY GROUPS WANT KENYA-US TRA AL HALTED OVER ANTI-GAY BILL
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE
• SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
• GAY KISS
• PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ RTOR SAME-SEX KISS AFTER BACKLASH OVER DISNEY’S RPONSE TO FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL
• DISNEY WILL RTORE GAY KISS TO LIGHTYEAR FOLLOWG “DON’T SAY GAY” BACKLASH
• THAT "GAY" KISS- ON THE BILL
• DISNEY RTOR SAME-GENR ‘LIGHTYEAR’ KISS FOLLOWG “DON’T SAY GAY” BACKLASH

SHOUT OUT LOUD! THE OUT GAY MAN WHO MA KISS SUPERSTARS, GOT THEM TO ROCK HALL OF FAME

Over 160 plats about a gay kiss between two policemen uniform screened before the 9pm watershed have been rejected by the Inpennt Televisn Commissn (ITC).

"The ITC, when published fdgs today, noted that the 8pm screeng may e "some viewers, cludg parents, would not feel fortable wh any reprentatn of homosexual behavur whilst young children might be watchg. The televisn watchdog has vdited ITV over s ntroversial cisn to show a gay kiss before the 9pm watershed. "The ITC regnised that some viewers, cludg parents, would not feel fortable wh any reprentatn of homosexual behavur while young children might be watchg, " the watchdog said.

ITC CLEARS 'THE BILL' GAY KISS

"The regulator said the kiss was unlikely to e as a shock to viewers bee the storyle volvg the gay characters had been veloped over several episos.

Viewers were already aware Sergeant Gilmore, who is openly gay, had a long-standg csh on his lleague, Constable a particularly strsful day, he ma his feelgs known to his lleague, which led to the ITC said other relatnships on the show had shown "a gree of physil timacy" but had not veloped beyond kiss. KISS's Pl Stanley has opened up about long-standg mors about his sexualy, sayg he wouldn't be ashamed to be a gay man. "If I were [gay], I’d be proud to be whatever I am, " the 63-year-old rocker told New Zealand's The Breeze.

ITV CLEARED OVER GAY KISS THE BILL

"Commemoratg KISS's ductn to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year, The Montreal Gazette published a profile of Bill Au, the legendary rock manager who disvered the band the early 1970s and who also happened to be an openly gay man. Also on HuffPost: Celebri Who've Faced Gay RumorsPopular the CommunyYou May Like. The gay kissg scen had on the edge of our seats!

KISS FRONTMAN PL STANLEY DON'T MD IF YOU THK HE'S GAY

HBO/Foc Featur/HuluEven 2023, ’s still not entirely mon for movi and TV shows to promently feature scen between two gay men kissg. There are still a lot of nservativ who fight back agast the characters, storyl, and scen – which is upsettg, but very an effort to celebrate the moments, we’ve put together a list featurg some of our favore gay kissg scen om film and televisn.

Scroll through to check out the gay kissg scen om movi and TV shows that we’ll never fet! One of the cutt and most romantic gay kissg scen ever took place on Young Royals.

LOBBY GROUPS WANT KENYA-US TRA AL HALTED OVER ANTI-GAY BILL

1987’s Mrice featured a very subtle and tentative – but still inic – gay kiss between Clive (Hugh Grant) and Mrice (Jam Wilby) durg a time when queer romance wasn’t at all somethg we expected to see on the big screen. HuluNoah (Joel Kim Booster) really wanted to be an pennt gay guy jt havg fun 2022’s Fire Island, but he didn’t foree fallg love wh Will (Conrad Rimora) while tryg to party up. Amid the ongog Strategic Tra and Invtment Partnership (STIP) talks between Kenya and the Uned Stat of Ameri, 49 US lobby groups have e out to ask the US ernment to halt the negotiatns until Kenya revok any anti-gay laws the untry.

The Fay Protectn Bill proposed by Homa Bay Town MP Peter Kaluma seeks to crimalize homosexualy, same-sex marriag, and LGBTQ passed, the bill will crimalise the promotn, recment, and fundg of homosexualy and a letter addrsed to Uned Stat Tra Reprentative Ambassador Kathere Tai, who's currently Kenya for the STIP negotiatns, the lobby groups ll on the Bin admistratn to halt the negotiatns until Print William Ruto veto any anti-gay law. The lobby groups attributed their ll for actn on that the proposed anti-gay bill go agast the prcipl and valu that the Bin admistratn stands for. Peter Kaluma, through his bill further wants the state to lim rights to assembly, monstratn, associatn, exprsn, belief, privacy, and employment childre stutns rpect of homosexual nvicts.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

The bill if passed will see the penalty imposed on homosexuals rangg om imprisonment of at least 10 years to ath. Passg the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu bill would further rce eedoms a untry where gay sex is already punishable wh up to three years jail, crics and activists Odoi, an amic rearcher, filed a lawsu on July 7 challengg the bill's nstutnaly, sayg would impact donor aid and other forms of fancial support. Ghana's Supreme Court on Wednday led her arguments were not sufficiently nvcg to grant an lg cleared the way for the bill, one of the harsht towards the LGBTQ muny Ai, to go through a fal stage of parliamentary approval before beg signed to May, Uganda's Print Yoweri Meveni signed one of the world's tought anti-LGBTQ laws, which spelled out the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy"'s bill, backed by relig and tradnal lears, clus jail sentenc of up to 10 years for advotg for LGBTQ rights.

Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny. Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab".

THE LAST OF US’S GAY LOVE STORY BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AN ENTIRE GENRE

"We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May. The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law.

SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)

Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy.

"The bill will propose a total ban on what the Wt lls sex-reassignment prcriptns and procr, and prohib all activi that promote homosexualy, terms of... Gay paras, drag shows, wearg the lours, the flags, the emblems of the LGBTQ group, " Mr Kaluma says. Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn.

GAY KISS

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia".

"It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma says. FWI's Mormon founr Sharon Slater ni that the group promot anti-gay laws Ai. She c a Uned Natns Populatn Fund (UNFPA) manual for out-of-school youths east and southern Ai, sayg promot homosexualy and is too explic.

PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ RTOR SAME-SEX KISS AFTER BACKLASH OVER DISNEY’S RPONSE TO FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL

"It sensis children to sex, " she Slater also quot om the manual, cludg l which say that facilators of lsons should have "a ntral, acceptg attu towards homosexualy".

After wng turns Lookg, Tal of the Cy and The Whe Lot, he’s fast beg one of the medium’s most proment gay the episo nears s end, and Frank be curably sick, the uple’s last scen together are profoundly movg. The episo is, among other thgs, a subversn of the much-cricised “bury your gays” trope.

Here, y, are two gay characters who die. He also reported that the episo featurg two gay men, Bill and Frank, om earlier the season was not eded the regn spe havg more kiss and scen of physil timacy. 1677524263Certa regns (ually the Middle East or Rsia) are notor for this kd of censorship of gay scen and 2021, the MCU’s first gay kiss the movie The Eternals was eded out the Uned Arab Emirat, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Ethpia, Palte, Syria, and Turkey.

DISNEY WILL RTORE GAY KISS TO LIGHTYEAR FOLLOWG “DON’T SAY GAY” BACKLASH

Then, a year later, referenc to Alb Dumbledore beg gay the film Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore were also eded earlier this year, the Rsian versn of The Whe Lot featured some heavily-eded episos, cludg climactic scen the fale.

A scene where Jennifer Coolidge’s character says that a group of “gays” was tryg to kill her was eded to say was a group of “men.

THAT "GAY" KISS- ON THE BILL

On March 9, LGBTQ employe and alli at Pixar Animatn Studs sent a jot statement to Walt Disney Company learship claimg that Disney executiv had actively censored “overtly gay affectn” s feature films.

DISNEY RTOR SAME-GENR ‘LIGHTYEAR’ KISS FOLLOWG “DON’T SAY GAY” BACKLASH

The stunng allegatn — ma as part of a larger prott over the pany’s lack of public rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill — did not clu which Pixar films had weathered the censorship, nor which specific creative cisns were cut or altered.

Followg the uproar surroundg the Pixar employe’ statement and Disney CEO Bob Chapek’s handlg of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, however, the kiss was restated to the movie last week.