LIP LOCKIN'

Michael Sam And Boyfriend Inspire Great Social Media “Kiss In”

michael-sam-gay-kiss-inIn response to Intolerant America’s claim that ESPN shoved Michael Sam‘s celebratory same-sex kiss “in our faces,” HuffPo blogger Michaelangelo Signorile published a call-to-action yesterday, encouraging folks to litter social media with photos of gay couples kissing.

Beginning yesterday afternoon, a number of people started the movement by changing their profile pictures on Twitter and Facebook to a photo of a gay couple smooching. Assuming that Facebook won’t find any of the photos “offensive,” Signorile hopes to achieve a news feed that will literally shove gay kisses in people’s faces, one profile picture at a time:

“I hereby launch the Great Facebook Kiss-In, urging everyone — whether gay, straight or bi — to change their profile pics to two women kissing or two men kissing. Maybe it’s you and your husband or wife, or your partner or sweetheart, or you and a friend. Maybe it’s your dad and your dad, or your mom and your mom. Maybe it’s two other people you just like a lot or think are hot…Just change your profile pic to a kissing same-sex couple, and urge others to do the same.”

And so it began:

Join the movement by tweeting your own same-sex kiss photo with the hashtag #kissin.

h/t BuzzFeed

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