Kissing over Rome.As Italian lawmakers debate giving marriage-like rights to same-sex couples A same-sex couple is a pair of people of the same gender who pursue a romantic or sexual relationship together. The term "same-sex relationship" may be used when the sexual orientation of participants in a same-sex relationship is not known. , controversial Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani Oliviero Toscani (b. 1942) is an Italian photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton, from 1982 to 2000. decided to stir things up. Among a series of billboards he shot for the trendy men's clothing line Ra-Re now appearing across Rome, one depicts a man groping grope v. groped, grop·ing, gropes v.intr. 1. To reach about uncertainly; feel one's way: groped for the telephone. 2. a male partner, and another shows the two men kissing on a leather sofa. "There's a big discussion going on about homosexuality in Italy, so I thought it was the right time to do something like this," Toscani told the U.K. newspaper The Observer. But several local groups disagreed, including the parents' association MOIGE MOIGE Movimento Italiano Genitori (Italian: parents movement) , which branded the ads as "vulgar" and demanded they be taken down. |
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