Vlad, #17 may be gross to you, but note that a kiss is a kiss. One should never be afraid to kiss someone they love, regardless of their age, race, gender, religion, etc.

Great idea and collection but 5 animals and not a male version of #17 is realy strange. Is it so choking ?

And a french kiss ?
;-)

very very nice:)i think are a lot of same moments but no evrybody is doing a photo when it's happend,good luck at kisses.kiss all
*sry 4 my bad english

Papelbon is married to Bristol Palin!

I agree with questions about male gay kiss. Also, what about famous Madonna & Britney kiss?

This is such an amazing collection. Full of emotions, regardless of country, religion or cultural likes and dislikes.

Loved it, but I've got to agree with #16 and #32.

One of the best collections posted here!
Now, a gay male kiss? Who would want to see that???

#32 is cute:)

I miss Juria, my wife, terribly and passionately! :( I can only kiss her on my computer's webcam for the past six months. I also miss my children and do the same thing.

The 'Collection of Kisses' series reminds me of the final scene from Guiseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso, where Salvatore, the lead character, now a filmaker, views the spliced film of kisses as a final remembrance from Alfredo, his passing old theater projectionist friend. Those reading in should see the film!

#17 is so disgusting... Plus I disagree with that law..

ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuubens barrichelo do bazil!!!

Amazing. A site that celebrates beauty and life and art can still be home for the hateful and the homophobic.

I loved them all. So what!!! No male gay kiss. Geez.. people lighten up. There IS a gay kiss in the collection. Gay is gay, so they covered that minority. If they had two men, then everyone would be complaining that there was no female gay kiss.

I love the dolphin one. I have a picture of myself, just like that one. :-) One of the best days in my life, since I had always wanted to swim with the dolphins. They are such majestic creations. And that picture brought back that memory. :-)

Thx for the great collection.

Why are people always complaining. Buy your own camera equipment, shoot a series of quality pictures on a topic of your choice and then publish it lal under your own name. Amen.
I love these series of pictures and it is difficult enough to get a few good shots on a topic, to get 32 of them. Thank you is what I say.

7 and 23
so shocking

Absolutely love photo #11- Jonathan Papelbon with daughter Parker. Nothing can melt my heart faster than seeing a new father holding his young daughter with such adoration and protection.

thought i'd see at least ONE picture of Paul Stanley in this mix...

Good collection of pictures and great moments as well.

Keep it up..

i would have liked to see more gay kisses. c'mon people - we exist and we kiss.

Why on earth would totally desecrate a wonderful picture display with picture #17? Please, please, understand that my opinion is worthless and to be honest I DO NOT HATE gay people. Either Jesus exists or He does not, if He does not then there is nothing wrong with gay people marrying each other but if Jesus does exist we had better do as He says. Jude Verse 7 says: “just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.”

Enjoyed the pics ;) People should stop complaining about what's on this display and what's not. I think it's great!

#23..... sigh.....picture does entail more than a thousand words

Pic 33 best... Thanks GloboBosoTon...

#30 gross. That old blood must be pretty fetid by now.

In my family, sons kiss their fathers. In sports men often kiss when they make the goal. Men in some countries kiss in greeting. The sad thing about not including men kissing here is that it indicates an almost pathological aversion to men showing any sort of affection to one another whatsoever. That's not only sad, it's sick.

Two things:

1) Excellent collection, as usual.

2) Thank God for Vermont.!

the last one is so cute :-x

All pictures tell a whole story. I love them all. My personal favourite is 32.

Melat Yante, Miss Ethiopia 2009 you kiss by....

wuuu, I like this

#7 is stunning

I am sad by all the hate over picture #17 - showing a picture of two people who are in love kissing is not horrible. People need to quit with all their bigotry and grow up

Number 6 - so wonderful and touching!

Beautiful pics! Very nice! =)

#53: Your post desecrates these comments with your intolerance. I think Jesus would have taken all of the people into his heart, not just the ones you like. If anything, Jesus stood up for those that had no representation. Perhaps you should too.

French Kiss ?

#17 is wonderful to see. Cheers to you for including it!
Thank you so much, it made my day.

Seriously cracking up that more people are offended by two women kissing (#17) than one women kissing 100 men (#25)

America, f*ck yeah!

@Pastor Keith

Jesus never said anything about marriage, sorry.

The book of Jude that you quote was not written by him -- as I recall, Jesus never wrote anything down.

For all we know he was totally fine with two ladies (or Brad Pitt's) locking lips.

Very nice kiss from Brazil for u!

#23 is most touching .... God forbid its reapeats..

Holy Crap #17... Does everything in life have to have religious overtones and implications? Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar

Religion has no place in the law-books. Period. What one religion or group thinks is wrong is just fine by another. The last time I checked, America isn't a theocracy, but it seems to be turning into a theocrazy. This is why we have a separation of church and state!

You people who are full of hate toward gay people falling in love and wanting to recognize it like every other citizen need to keep their bigotry to yourselves.

Excelentes fotos, gracias por compartir momentos marcados con tanta emoción!!,, saludos

#23 - What to say about it .. A pain I am feeling since I seen it ..

You had done an AWESOME work ..

Excellent photos! #2 is my favorite, however, I'm struck not by the kiss but by the woman standing there waiting.

#23 is heartbreaking.

Glad to see love around!... Thank you for wonderful moments.

I'd kiss the guy in #22 and I'm a straight male.

Thanks for the beautiful kind photos! :)
I am from Russia, and my personal favorite photo is # 10!

Hahahaha, comment 81 is great :D

@ mdmadph
It is funny how we twist things to try and make our point. I never said Jesus wrote anything DOWN did I? I said if Jesus is God we had better listen to him. The bible is inspired by God, Jesus is God, you do the math...The bible doesn’t say not to molest children; it doesn’t say not to sell drugs it doesn’t say a lot of things, are these things okay, or are the precepts in place. By the way the bible has a lot to say about marriage and how we are to live our lives. As for your last comment “For all we know he was totally fine with two ladies (or Brad Pitt's) locking lips.” Actually we do know that Jesus would not be fine with two ladies (or Brad Pitt's) locking lips, because He hates sin and He decides what sin is. This is not a comment on hating anyone I DO NOT HATE GAY PEOPLE.

What I find interesting is that there are people who would be offended by two gay females kissing, but if they saw two 'hot' actresses/models kissing it would be more than fine.

And @ Pastor Keith:
Your disclaimer that you "DO NOT HATE GAY PEOPLE" doesn't negate your post. Sorry.

#23 is heart breaking. The pain of the father is caught so vividly in the picture.

A KISS ENCLOSES ALL THE WORDS THAT WE CAN´T SAY

Well, this is the closest we've been here to F1, so it's good :)

Does anyone see a much deeper political symbolism in #26?

America, symbolized by the statue of liberty ...

kissing (endorsing?)

communism, symbolized by the deep red and arc of a sickle in the old Soviet flag.

Just a thought.

and what about Gay and Lesbian kisses?

Just discovered boston.com, wonderful pictures. thanks for that: a real pleasure...

great kiss great monent

Ugh, people just STOP. Love is Love.
Get over it.
Us queers are not going away.
Learn to accept it.
For all the shit and ignorance you say about us, maybe we should start straight bashing you.

How would you like it if you were judged because you like the opposite sex?
I could walk around saying " EWW Straight people! go to hell you breeders!"
...doesn't sound too nice huh.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But when you use your opinion to disrespect others and mentally/physically abuse them because of it, you lose that right.

Has anyone considered that the reason for no male-on-male kissing may just be that, on this occasion, the editor doesn't have a decent picture to hand? Let's not automatically assume that they "can't confront it".

All Great Pictures!!!
I just want to know, who or what is holding the flag in pic # 3..

Breakdown
10 Inanimate object kisses (flags, trophies, camara, glass, net, shoe, track and religious icon
6 members of the opposite sex
6 children
5 other species (cat, lion, dog, dolphin and sea lion)
3 dead relatives (coffins included here)
1 sports winner
1 relative (nephew)
1 member of the same sex

This is like a 13 year old girl's idea of what kisses are about.

"The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss." -source unknown.

Thanks for the beautiful pictures.

So true,.... A kiss jus speaks everything, so many countless emotions can be said by just a Kiss... Like many of us, I also got tears, specially for the Father who kissed his dead son and the mother who kissed the casket of her son ....

Amazing Amazing !!

As the t-shirt says, "Feelings are boring, kissing is awesome!" Nice collection

#23 brought tears to my eyes.

After going through all the photos, I came to a sad realisation - we Indians really don't kiss at all do we ?

# 21 # 22 & # 23

# 21 kissing his shoe

# 22 threw his shoes got imprisoned now kissed by uncle

# 23 kissing son who has been killed by air strike. All the agony of a father.

All three are sad pics. All clinging to show their willingness to depart from sadness by those simple kisses

All these photographs are unique in their own special way...some are very touching...especially some of the funeral ones, the elderly lady kissing her cat after losing all she owned stuck in my throat

Not surprised no gay guys kissing... Should someone viewing these pics find gay couples kissing offensive, Its usually two guys makin out that people find more offensive so they use a girl couple instead. Could just be they didn't find a good photo either (although, I am dubious that is the case..)

wonderful photo! thanks !

Thumbs way up for #17!

What do I say about no.17. this is simply not God's creation!

pic 26 = awesome ... !!! hehe ...

its soooooooooooo nice and touching.
got a bounding heartbeat...

oh God our Kim Clijsters (pic 18) is in this serie, I'm proud to be a belgian now :)
awsom

Very nice, thank you :)

Another great collection ! Thank you.
There are those who do nothing but complain--how sad that they are missing so much in life.

Amazing how the kiss can convey various emotions

Merci !!

Beautiful photographs of all kind of love
thanks

Why is it that whenever there is a photograph of a gay kiss in the news it portrays two women who are unattractive.

This may sound shallow at first, but what is happening here is that the pictures are showing heterosexual kisses between two attractive people and piling them on top of one homosexual kiss between unattractive people. The point is not one of eroticism, but what the psyche is led to believe when these images are viewed. It's almost as if to say "heterosexuality is beautiful, homosexuality is ugly". When the real message for this thread should be "love is beautiful".

The last picture is funny =D

116 u're so right

#116, perhaps if another couple had been the first to be married after the stroke of midnight on the first day that Vermont's marriage equality law went into effect, the photo might have been more to your liking.

Regardless, the photo was news, and as such worthy of inclusion.

What I find shallow, perhaps, are all of the sports personalities kissing their trophies and gear...

PIc 23 ....a very emotional and a touching picture that moved me to tears ....may his soul rest in peace ...pray that no father should go through this ....its so real and touching though!!!!

two men kissing is a very beautiful moment to have left out.

here's one:
http://bucket0.lg1x8.simplecdn.net/images/thumbs/20090111154618.jpg

No gay guys kissing? Perhaps even the lesbian kiss was thrown in just to escape charges of heterosexism. Surely if anyone (any non-homophobic person) wanted to collect different types of kisses then a lesbian kiss and a gay-male kiss would be obvious choices to be included?

So great , wonderful topic!

@116:
oh, gays are super but anyone a little overweight or with glasses is "ugly"? i think you're the one that's shallow.
i LOVE that picture and i think it's very beautiful.
btw: everything said about homosexuality in the bible is in the old testament. that was before jesus, as far as i know. i am not religious but i think you shouldn't use "religion" as a poor excuse for your own immaturity. get over it and think yourself. and yes, if you like to believe in god, it IS god's creation. look at nature, there's homosexuality everywhere. humans are the only species to make such a fuss about it.

I really hope that people can feel the mixture of emotions to translate the subject and to take it to the real world.

I *think* the idea here was not to show a wide sampling of the variety of kisses, but rather a wide variety of emotions and reasons for kissing. (as well as beautiful photographs with good stories...) There are kisses of triumph, grief, defeat, sexuality, defiance, joy, angish, curiosity, exhibitionism, prayer, commercialism, earnestness, superficiality, professionalism, relief and of course "love". But of the photos of love, i'd argue, there's a lot of different kinds of love. I think the idea here is to show the BREDTH of REASONS for human kissing -- not to make any statement (political or otherwise)

For that reason, I'd like to say this about #17

This is not, in my eyes, a photo about homosexuality.

This is a photo about defiance and a sense of victory. These women are getting married at the stroke of midnight ON PURPOSE -- as a symbol of celebrating the victory of their cause. Note that the wedding was officiated by the HEAD of the Vermont Freedom to Marry Taskforce. This was the kissing equivalent of the first person to take a sledgehammer to the berlin wall. That wasn't a photo about a man hitting a wall with a hammer. It was symbolic, as is this.

So if you take objection to gay marriage and were offended by this photo/law, you must agree that for those women, the event was very significant and marked a major step in a long struggle they have undertaken for a cause they believe in. (whether or not you do)

If, on the other hand, you take objection to the lack of a "gay male" kiss in this collection, I think you're missing the point entirely. Perhaps this was omitted to reduce controversy, but I find it far more likely that these photos were selected for the meaning of their contents, not the actual contents.

I fall into neither camp. This collection is great (although not perfect) -- but it's just not about homosexuality.

Oh, and #116 -- I don't think the women in #17 *are* unattractive. Looking through this collection, they're nor more or less attractive on average than the other people. The only "hetero" kiss between clearly very attractive people is #14, which I see as a picture about the affluence and the limelight -- a quite artificial picture with close to zero appeal.

this is a fabulous collection of images. #23 indeed is heartbreaking and made me feel very emotional. pictures are worth a thousand words, but also a thousand feelings.

@Lil: "pictures are worth a thousand words, but also a thousand feelings"
Well said.

#23 is no doubt the most touching. I would dread being in the father's place. It also shows how intolerant the human race has become. Why are we killing each other?
May there be peace in this world.

Seriously, chill out people. These are "33 recent kisses" -- kisses that have been related to *recent* current event, over the past few months. So your clamoring for "representative" images of gay men kissing, or well-known kisses like Madonna and Britney make absolutely no sense. The one lesbian kiss happens to be in relation to Vermont's legalization of gay marriage. They happen to use a photograph of lesbian kissing for that event. It's a touching image, it represents the event. If it was one of gay men, great, but it's not. Oh well. You either appreciate the artistry or poignancy of the photograph or you don't. Move on.

This is not suppose to be a "diversified" representative collection of the ways and reasons people kiss. There isn't a quota in play here, OK? It's just recent images of people kissing poignantly or meaningfully. That is all. Plenty of beautiful heterosexual, homosexual, inter-species, and all other manners of kissing on the internet elsewhere, mkay?

lol at comment 70

Kissing is one of the natural things that people do. It is always so lovely whether it be a kiss from a parent, friend, lover or pet. I say kiss someone every day. See if you can.... i bet you'll make a llot of people smile.

Women and women kissing.
Men and men kissing.

That is evil! Hell on Earth tomorrow!!

(But bombing a country, that is for the peace of the world...).

Sort out your morals, enjoy kissing anyone, and be cool and lovely :)

Awsome