Hundreds Stage Gay Kiss-In Outside London Pub Accused Of Homophobia

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Gay men and women gather outside the John Snow pub in London to stage a group kiss.

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Gay men and women gather outside the John Snow pub in London to stage a group kiss.

A gay couple in London said they were thrown out of a London pub on Wednesday because they were kissing. Jonathan Williams tweeted about the incident and suddenly Williams and his date James Bull became, as the AP reports, a sensation. Their story ? it was a "hands-on-the-table kiss" ? was suddenly everywhere and even made it on the front page of The Guardian.

The John Snow pub had no comment about the controversy. But a Facebook group emerged in protest and planned to stage a "massive same-sex snogathon" in front of the pub.

The Guardian reports that this evening about 300 people ? including the couple that started this ? showed up. The pub had closed, but just after 7 p.m.:

[A] mass co-ordinated kissing took place in the street, to whoops of encouragement from a growing crowd. "It's still a victory," said Paul Shetler, a senior director at an IT firm. "They've wound up losing a night's takings because they couldn't have a bunch of men with tongues in each others' mouths."

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/04/15/135451313/hundreds-stage-gay-kiss-in-outside-london-pub-accused-of-homophobia?ft=1&f=1001

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