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One of the men in the spiked photo had something to say about LaPointe’s explanation. In a signed editorial under the headline Photo decisions based on needs, taste, LaPointe explained that the “image itself would be offensive to a number of our readers.”Īpparently, the kiss was also a “provocative gesture” and a “basic stunt” at a “staged” event, so he wasn’t going to be used like that, LaPointe explained in the October 15, 1999, front page piece.
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Just as pride weekend kicks off in Vancouver, the mayoral candidate running under the conservative banner of the Non-Partisan Association (NPA) may be wishing he had never spiked a picture of two gay men kissing for fear of offending readers.Īfter all, LaPointe is trying to soften the NPA’s hard edges, with its less-than-stellar record on gay rights.īack in 1999, while serving as Editor-in-chief of The Hamilton Spectator, LaPointe decided against publishing a picture of two men kissing at a Gay Pride Week kiss-in at McMaster University.
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Kisses were targets for the censors, who feared that audiences might be enticed toward inappropriate passions. From cinema’s very beginnings until the mid-1960s, Linda Williams argues, "a kiss of variable length had to do the job of suggesting all the excitement and pleasure of intimate sexual contacts." This was certainly true in Australia, where a limited local film industry and a dependence upon British and American studios was coupled with multiple layers of censorship, first in the place of production and then through local censorship regimes. To carry multiple meanings in the history of cinematic sex, from innocent affection to sexual passion. That we "must remember this: a kiss is just a kiss." Although now a classic cinematic moment, coming from a Hollywood film, this is arguably something of a hypocritical message, when placed on-screen, a kiss has often represented much more than just a kiss. In the 1942 film Casablanca, piano-playing Sam famously sings