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Texas Gay Cheerleader Suspended Over Kiss

OIA Staff — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:28:59 +0000

There are reports that a male cheerleader from Alice, Texas was deliberately entrapped and kicked off of the cheerleading squad for kissing another boy. He was also suspended from school. The gay teen was caught on a surveillance camera that school officials checked. via. Read the full article @ Texas Gay Cheerleader Suspended Over Kiss [...]

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Let My People Kiss – General Gayety

OIA Staff — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:54:58 +0000

Among the security guards at Target Field in Minneapolis, one stands out for his overriding moral concerns. The fellow is a little tin Moses, and the stadium is his Mount Sinai. With mustard and relish. Taylor Campione and Kelsi Culpepper encountered him when they decided to take in a Minnesota Twins game on May 27. [...]

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Watch: Glee’s Kurt Hummel Gets His First Kiss

OIA Staff — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:19:42 +0000

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What does it take to get booted from a North Carolina shopping center?

OIA Staff — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:59:24 +0000

Holding hands. Caitlin Breedlove, who happens to be co-director of the minority activist group Southerners on New Ground, says she and her girlfriend were told to leave Raleigh’s Cameron Village by a security guard (and the guard’s supervisor) after they finished eating lunch and sat down on a nearby bench, where they shared a peck [...]

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Gay couple may be entered in Guinness Book of World Records for longest kiss

OIA Staff — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:54:50 +0000

Matty Daley and Bobby Canciello, both gay men, have apparently broken the record for the world’s longest kiss after locking lips for nearly 33 hours. The record was formerly held by Nicola Matovik and Kristina Reinhart, a German couple. Officials from Guinness World Records will now review the taped material to determine if the record [...]

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Should Gay Fans Appear on Stadium “Kiss Cam?”

OIA Staff — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:47:18 +0000

The stadium kiss cam is supposed to give sports fans a chuckle. But members of a gay and lesbian group say it will be no laughing matter if they’re left out. The gay rights group Pride St. Louis has an event planned at Busch Stadium this weekend, with hundreds of members attending. They want to [...]

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Gay Couple, Famous for a Kiss, Separated by Tragedy

OIA Staff — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:06:21 +0000

Two young men electrified a conservative South African town when a picture of them kissing prompted anger–mostly from area males–but also spoke to gays of passion, commitment… and normalcy. The photo, capturing a moment in time, is immortal–but a month after it was taken, one of the young men is dead, and the other in [...]

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‘True Blood’s’ Alexander Skarsgard: I’d Never Kissed A Guy Before

OIA Staff — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:29:06 +0000

True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgard, Eric, says he and co-star Theo Alexander had never had an onscreen male kiss before filming their electrifying scene. Skarsgard told Entertainment Weekly that neither he nor Theo Alexander had previously kissed a man onscreen. “I’d never kissed a guy before on a show or in a movie, and that was [...]

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Modern Family’s Gay Kiss

OIA Staff — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:33:28 +0000

We’ve been wondering when we’d finally get to see Modern Family’s Cameron and Mitchell pucker up on the hit ABC comedy? Here’s what Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet had to say: “Don’t expect a Gone With the Wind type of thing happening, I know the fans would like that,” Ferguson said at last night’s [...]

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A record breaking kiss for LGBT rights

OIA Staff — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:18:32 +0000

On August 11, an attempt was made by Matty Daley and Bobby Canciello to break the world record for the longest kiss. The two men began the mulit-hour kiss Wednesday as part of their “Our Lips Are Sealed” campaign to fight homophobia. The two, who are not a couple, say that the kiss campaign is “about fighting hegemonic norms.” [...]

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NBC cuts homophobic scene from Law & Order SVU

OIA Staff — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:12:09 +0000

Kathy Griffin, who is guest starring on the Law & Order SVU episode “PC”, has tweeted that Law & Order creator Dick Wolf has decided to cut the contraversial scene. From Kathy’s twitter: Awwww. Dick Wolf took out my BIG KISS w the sexxxxy Mariska H from “my” ep of L&O SVU March 3rd. Is [...]

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‘One Life to Live’ airs daytime TV’s first gay sex scene

OIA Staff — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:38:42 +0000

The same network that cancelled Adam Lambert’s daytime performances after his same-sex kiss at the American Music Awards aired the first-ever gay sex scene on daytime TV on Wednesday. [ dailynews ] Read the full article @ ‘One Life to Live’ airs daytime TV’s first gay sex scene Read more articles @ our blogBecome a [...]

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We Finally Understand Why the Mormon Church Attacked These 2 Gay Kissers

OIA Staff — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:53:26 +0000

It was the kiss heard ’round Salt Lake: Derek Jones and Matt Aune smooched in front of the Mormon Church on Main Street, and forced LDS to go and spend a few bucks erecting new warning signs. But hey, have we ever looked at it from the Church’s eyes? [ Queerty ] Read the full [...]

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Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore kiss and tell about “Whip It”

OIA Staff — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:35:10 +0000

Look, makers of Whip It, you already totally had me at fierce girls on roller skates. But now, thanks to two new magazine photoshoots, my anticipation is fever pitch. Or, more accurately, the kind of fever that happens in my brain at the sight of Drew Barrymore straddling Ellen Page on the floor. And, well, [...]

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Nationwide Kiss-In this Saturday! Are you going?

OIA Staff — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:39:51 +0000

The great nationwide kiss-in will be occurring at dozens of cities across the United States and Canada this Saturday, August 15th at 2:00 pm EDT (11:00 am PDT) to show support for gay public display of affection. The event is taking place after recent arrests and discrimination imposed on same-sex couples for showing their love. [...]

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Springfield, MO and Anti-Gay Flirting Laws – Why the Kiss In Really Matters

OIA Staff — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:18:23 +0000

Organizers of the Great Nationwide Kiss In understood the importance of a kiss when they first decided to turn it into a movement. They repeatedly told the stories of: the two men in El Paso who were kicked out of Chico’s Tacos in El Paso, Texas for kissing; the two lesbians kicked out of Rolling [...]

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Big Brother housemates have gay kiss

OIA Staff — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:32:43 +0000

Big Brother housemates Charlie and Rodrigo have shared a passionate kiss under the covers in the early hours of this morning. The gay housemates, who seem to have a love/hate relationship, snuggled together under the duvet before locking lips. [ mirror.co.uk ] Read the full article @ Big Brother housemates have gay kiss Read more [...]

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Two gay men kicked out of Chico’s Tacos restaurant for kissing

OIA Staff — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:44:38 +0000

Two gay men kissed at a Chico’s Tacos restaurant, prompting guards to eject them and a police officer to endorse their ouster. Civil-rights lawyers say the security staff was out of line. Police, though, contend that a business such as a restaurant can refuse service to anybody, any time. [ El Paso Times ] Read [...]

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