Ready, Set, Kiss!
Are you looking for an afternoon outing that combines street theater, gay liberation, humor and full mouth boy-on-boy & girl-on-girl kissing? Yes, you say; but you also want games, rainbow flags, and free hugs? Well, Mary quite contrary, there happens to be an event on the horizon that promises to meet or exceed your impossibly high standards.
That event is happening courtesy of Queer Liberaction, the recently formed Dallas organization "dedicated to struggling for the civil rights of GLBT people" through the use of "direct action activism to visibly and publicly confront homophobia."
Beginning at Noon on Saturday, February 7th, a "Queer Kiss-in" is scheduled to take place at Ross and Harwood in downtown Dallas.
As much about getting in your face as it is about sucking face, the Queer Kiss-in is designed to be "as fun and visible as possible" as it provides "a visible and public space where gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are free to display their affection for someone of the same gender."
Queer Liberaction founder and event organizer Blake Wilkinson sees the event as a way to provide a visually compelling rebuttal to those who claim to be OK with gay people so long as we pesky LGBTs don't try to shove it down their throats or in their faces. By holding a queer kiss-in, says Wilkinson, "We are asserting our right in a very celebratory and fun way to unabashedly love someone of the same gender" while affirming that sexually active same sexes are "just as valid as everybody else and have just as much right to celebrate our expression of love in private or public just as much as everyone else does.
Passersby should expect to see "rainbow pride flags, pro-GLBT signs and of course women kissing women and men kissing men. As part of the event, Queer Liberaction will have a "queer kissing booth" where for a small donation one can receive a "queer kiss." Participants of the event will hold "free queer hugs" signs to encourage the public to get involved - and they'll back up what's written on those signs by giving hugs to all comers. You don't have to be a member of the "cocksuckers only club" to get a giddy little thrill from your free queer hug - although it certainly doesn't hurt!
Those who really want to get into the spirit can show their true rainbow colors by taking part on games like Over the Top (where two people hold either side of a Twizzler stick in their mouths while racing towards a not-too-far-away finish line). Free queer kisses will also be given away in the form of pink Valentine's Day Hershey's Kisses that have been deviously repurposed by Queer Liberaction to help advance their randy, radical homosexual agenda.
The event will also help promote a larger demonstration set for National Freedom to Marry Day on February 12. That event, which will begin at 11:30am at the Records Building in downtown Dallas, will hold short wedding ceremonies before same-sex couples apply for marriage licenses. Members of Queer Liberaction will be handing out information about the National Freedom to Marry Day demonstration at the Queer Kiss-in.