Performing a Kiss in Saida 1950

February 17, 2009



Bashasha (left) and a friend.
Studio Shehreadze, Saida, LEbanon, late 1950s
Hashem el Maadi

copyright: Arab Image Foundation

“Films inspired the people a lot. They came to perform kissing in front of a camera. In a conservative society such as Saida (Sidon, Lebanon) people were willing to play the kiss between two people of the same sex, but very rarely between a man and a woman.”

courtesy of queeringyerevan.blogspot.com

1 comment

1 nathalie { 08.28.09 at 12:14 pm }

is it just me or does this kiss look extremely awkward? do you know more about it ? it looks more like a staged fem-fem (“soft porn”) pic set up to please hetero males…

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