The Kiss

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by BRYAN CURTIS ON DECEMBER 12, 2014

How’d you feel when you saw the kiss? You know the one I mean. If I weren’t such a jaded soul, I’d call it the V-J Day photo of 2014. Michael Sam, the defensive end who’d just been drafted by the St. Louis Rams, turns to his boyfriend, Vito Cammisano, and kisses him. Right on the mouth. Right in front of the world. Jaded soul, right? Not at that moment. I forgot all about the NFL’s long history of coded bigotry and imagined we were on a Devin Hester glide path into the future.

“It was my sports moment of the year, hands down,” said Jim Buzinski, one of the founders of the website Outsports. “We’ve seen World Cup celebrations. World Series celebrations. All sorts of celebration and dejection. This was something nobody had ever seen before.

“That’s why the image was powerful. Because it caused this reaction or discussion that was either good or bad. People were confronted with it. Because that’s what gay men do. They actually kiss just like straight people do.”


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[LuvNewcastle]

1. It was beautiful.

I never thought I'd see the day, but there it was. I hope they have a long happy life together.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. It was lovely

And I like the artist rendition very very much!

[Rhythm]

3. I was at work (a 'straight' pub) and we all applauded !

I'm the only member of the staff who's LGBT, but my co-workers are all moderate-to-progressive college students or graduates, and we all cheered and applauded as we watched the draft!

[dbackjon]

4. It was awesome

[Fearless]

5. It was beautiful but I do have an observation...

Regarding the response to the video clip.

More than 2/3rs of people I've encountered didn't take issue with it. But more interestingly, 99.9% of the issues people have had with this was due to the fact that two men kissed and not because they are an interracial couple.