Posted on 09/16/2015 3:00:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Swedish business people, politicians and cultural icons have been snapped smooching with members of the same sex for a poster campaign in Umeå, designed to 'kiss homophobia goodbye'.
The giant images are being displayed around Umeå's main indoor shopping centre, rather fittingly named Utopia, ahead of the northern Swedish city's Pride festival over the weekend.
"It's a great honour to have these participants offering themselves, and undoubtedly promotes our campaign against homophobia," said Mona Liden, Utopia's manager, in a statement.
Municipal councillors from the centre-right Moderate Party and from Prime Minister Stefan Löfven's Social Democrats are among those who have been photographed for the Kiss Homophobia Goodbye project, as well as ice hockey coaches, university staff and the director of the city's Women's History Museum.
With temperatures of around 14C and rain predicted on Friday, some of the Umeå Pride festival will take place inside Utopia rather than outdoors.
"It's important for us to support the forces that seek to preserve diversity and act against hate and intolerance," added Liden.
"We have chosen to help Umeå Pride to reach out with its message about the right to love all kinds of people."
Meta Tunnell, one of the organisers of the Pride event in the famously open and tolerant city described the shopping mall's involvement this year as "priceless".
"We work with an almost non-existent budget and 'Kiss Homophobia Goodbye' gives us the opportunity to reach out with our message far more than we usually do."
People living in Umeå and elsewhere in Sweden are being invited to take part in the campaign by posting pictures of themselves kissing someone of the same gender on social media, with the hashtags #kisshomophobiagoodbye or #khg.
Linnea Risinger, a spokesperson for RFSL, the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Rights described the initiative as "an awesome campaign" when contacted by The Local.
Sweden is hosting a record number of festivals aimed at the country's sizeable LGBTQ community in 2015.
In 2013, the Spartacus International Gay Guide ranked the Nordic country the most gay-friendly nation in the world and earlier this year it scored highest in Scandinavia and fourth in Europe in a review of how lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people experience human rights across the continent, by campaign group ILGA-Europe.
Now, if they could get the Muzzies to stop raping their women....
I hope they and the new ISIS population are very happy together.
Scratch it off my bucket list.
Great, next they can get their pictures taken kissing animals too!
Otherwise they’re “Zoophilophobic”!
Watch how the Sodomites take this as tacit approval to go after little kids. When they are caught, they will simply reply, “I thought we agreed to kiss homophobia goodbye?!”
What are the Swedes going to do when the Muzzies start slitting homosexual throats?
Maybe they already do it, but it’s just being kept quiet because disclosing that would be considered racist.
Somehow I get the feeling that the posters are not of the Swedish Bikini Team members.
The migrants can have this stinking cesspit. I hope they have high rooftops
It’s funny how you can change the second ‘p’ in the word ‘propaganda’ to an ‘f’ and you get ‘profaganda’.
How in the name of Sam Hill does any society benefit from the embrace of immorality?
Good. I hope Umeå will become a haven for homosexuals and they’ll all go there and leave the rest of us alone.
Thousands of people are daily humiliated by people who catch them with their fingers up their noses. If we could blanket the cities with posters of people proudly "picking" it would increase awareness/understanding of this persecuted minority.
Why don’t the queers just rim each other in public and get on with it.
Europe is being overrun by a the largest foreign horde since the Crusades, and these people can’t think of anything more important to do than this?
Playing music as the Titanic sinks?
The homo agenda, the mass borderless invasions happening all over the place, black lives matter and every other socialist hot button issue all stems from political correctness. This guilt inducing pariah is a cancer on America and the world.
Trump is the only candidate that can disable pc.
Welcome to Sweden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KSJY0c8QWw
And this nation actually used to be considered to be the most powerful country on Earth at one time!
I’m guessing the Muzzies have their own plans for the same-sex people.
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