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
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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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