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USA - These women kiss outside the wake for Pulse shooting victim Javier Jorge-Reyes in Orlando, Florida in 2016. They were also counter-protesting the Westboro Baptist Church.
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USA - A "kiss-in" outside a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Hollywood, California in 2012. The fast food chain's president had previously said he was opposed to same-sex unions.
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Brazil - A couple kiss outside the National Congress in Brasilia in 2005 as they protest for equal rights for same-sex couples in areas such as taxes and pensions.
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Italy - These two men kiss in protest of an arrest under the same conditions: two men seen kissing outside the Colosseum in Rome in 2007, accused of "lewd conduct."
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Spain - These two men kiss in protest of a homophobic attack in Madrid in 2006.
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Russia - Activists protest the first reading of Russia's "homosexual propaganda" law in Moscow in 2013.
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Great Britain - A kiss outside the Danish embassy in London in 1994, urging the same freedoms LGBTQ people enjoy in Denmark for those in Great Britain.
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Israel - A kiss on full display at the LGBTQ Pride parade in Jerusalem in 2006, despite backlash against the event.
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Greece - These men protest the decision to fine a television channel for airing a gay kiss, this in Athens in 2003.
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Germany - A couple share a kiss in Munich in 2001 in protest of the Bavarian state not allowing officially registered same-sex partnerships.
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Australia - Responding to proposed federal legislation banning same-sex marriage, this in 2004 in Sydney.
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Croatia - A couple kiss in front of a cathedral in Zagreb in 2013. They were protesting the Catholic Church for criticizing the government's openness to including sexual minorities in sex education curricula in schools.
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North Macedonia - These women kiss in 2008 in the city of Skopje in what was Macedonia, protesting the country's proposed name change. Nonetheless, the country became known as North Macedonia in early 2019.
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Brazil - This couple participate in a kiss-in protest against homophobia in São Paulo in 2003. The protest took place in the same shopping center a security guard had prohibited a gay couple from kissing in weeks earlier.
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Israel - These two women seal the Pride parade in Tel Aviv with a kiss in 2002.
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Mexico - Couples kiss outside the town hall in Monterrey in 2015 after authorities removed posters for a play that showed two men kissing.
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USA - A kiss-in protest against President Donald Trump outside Trump Tower in New York City in 2017.
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Italy - A happy "protest" in Venice in 2007 as participants celebrate draft family law that would allow unwed couples, including same-sex couples, to get certificates from town halls confirming their status as a couple.
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Russia - Activists kiss as they are detained following a protest in Saint Petersburg in 2013.
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Brazil - Supporters of leftist presidential candidate Fernando Haddad kiss in protest of supporters of right-wing candidate (and future president) Jair Bolsonaro, this in Rio de Janeiro in 2018.
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- Another Chick-fil-A protest, this time in Decatur, Georgia in 2012.
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Spain
- A Brazilian gay activist (left) and a Spanish heterosexual ally wearing tape over his month respond to an anti-protest (hence the tape) security law in Spain and anti-LGBT laws in countries like Russia, this in Málaga in 2015.
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Pucker up: The queer kiss as protest
Around the world in queer kisses
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A kiss is just a kiss, except when it's not. Across the globe, LGBTQ people have often kissed in public protest, many times with consequences. Whether as part of the fight for same-sex marriage, to protest homophobic attacks, or as a means of responding to anti-LGBTQ laws, queer people have been kissing each other (and allies) as a show of strength for many a decade, critics be damned.
From relatively liberal countries to extremely conservative nations, discover some of the most intriguing examples of the queer kiss as protest in this gallery.
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