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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GAY KISS
A gay kiss has all the bety and tenrns that a straight one do, wh the add benef of beg between two men. * gay pride kiss *
What mak a gay kiss unique?
In fact, a gay kiss is technilly the exact same as a straight one. Whether you love watchg gay men kiss bee 's adorable, or bee 's a way to monstrate one's pri, has everythg you uld want. What are the most inic on-screen gay kiss of all time?
TWO MEN KISSG: A PHOTO CELEBRATN OF GAY PRI
We've e a long way recent years when to real, thentic pictns of gay love on-screen, and while same-sex kiss are still fairly new when you nsir the overall history of Hollywood and media, there's still a whole lot of gay love, specifilly gay kiss, to watch and choose om.