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ABC Family’s The Fosters Makes History With Youngest Same-Sex Kiss

ABC Family’s “Jude” and “Connor” make history with first kiss

This past Monday night’s episode of ABC Family’s The Fosters made history by featuring a story line which led to the youngest sam-sex kiss in television history.

Plenty of TV shows explore the coming of age aspect of growing up and experiencing romantic attraction between opposite-sex teens. But for the first time, two 13 year-old male characters saw their way to a first kiss during the episode.

The smooch aired on Monday night’s episode of The Fosters and took place between main character Jude (played by 14-year-old actor Hayden Byerly) and his best friend, Connor (played by 15-year-old actor Gavin MacIntosh).

“This story line is important in so many ways,” said MacIntosh in an interview with entertainment site Just Jared Jr. “It’s been eye-opening about how many kids struggle with feeling ‘OK’ about questioning their sexuality.”

Now observers are viewing the “Jonner” kiss as a milestone in diversity. “Boy/girl crushes at 13 are portrayed a lot on TV,” MacIntosh said in his Just Jared Jr. interview. “But to represent something different — I am proud of that.”

Jennifer Lopez serves as an executive producer on the series.

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Commercials: Lynx Ad Features Gay Couple

Down under, the Axe line of personal products is marketed as Lynx. And the cool Aussie folks in charge of Lynx recently released this new commercial which features a gay couple kissing.

“Now can be amazing. Go out. See amazing things. Get an amazing job. Kiss the hottest girl. Or the hottest boy,” he says.

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Frank Bruni for the New York Times: “Read These Lips”

Frank Bruni writes for the New York Times:

A kiss is nothing. On the sidewalks, in the park, I see one every few minutes, a real kiss, lip to lip. It barely registers. It’s as unremarkable as a car horn in traffic, as an umbrella in rain.

And yet a kiss is everything. A kiss can stop the world.

The football player Michael Sam recently demonstrated as much.

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I feel robbed — wronged — if I sense that an awareness of other people’s gazes and a fear of their judgment are preventing him from doing that.

We shouldn’t be bound that way, and on the day of the pro football draft, in front of the cameras, Sam rightly declared that he wasn’t. He did so with a gesture at once humdrum and heroic, a gesture that connects everyone who has been in love and affirms what every love shares: physical tenderness, eye-to-eye togetherness. It was something to behold. It was something to hold on to.

Full essay (covering many of Hollywood’s most famous kisses that broke society’s taboos) here.

(h/t JMG)

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Short film: “First Kiss”

Directed by Ttia Pilieva, First Kiss puts two strangers together and asks them to kiss each other for the first time.

All kinds of couples here and it’s pretty interesting watching the dynamics. The participants go from awkward to shy to really being in the moment during their kiss.

The clip begs the question – How many of you have kissed a stranger?

I’ll answer first – Yes.

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(h/t Gizmodo)

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BBC’s “EastEnders” Johnny & Danny kiss

This kiss on the British soap Eastenders between characters Johnny Carter and Gary Pennant (Sam Strike and Gary Lucy) is causing a bit of controversy after dozens aired homophobic reactions on Twitter following the episode.

Via OUT:

Although the BBC says it has received very few complaints through official channels to the kiss between Eastenders characters Johnny Carter and Gary Pennant (Sam Strike and Gary Lucy), Twitter reactions have taken a disappointingly homophobic tone to the romantic interlude on a recent episode of the British soap opera.

Some called for killing the “faggots” and complaining that the show was filled with them.

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Cal Poly University: Gay students shut down anti-gay preacher on campus

Gay students kiss while anti-gay preacher talks about the evils of homosexuality, being gay and marriage equality

At California Poly State University in San Luis Obispo this week, an anti-gay ‘preacher’ was exercised her freedom of speech on campus to pontificate on the evils of homosexuality and same-sex marriage.

Two students decided to exercise their freedom of expression, too, in their own way.

The crowd was clear on what position they support.

(source)