You Can't Kiss Here

A gay couple in Colombia who were kissing in public as part of a filming were stopped by the police and allegedly threatened with detainment.
The filming was actually for gay dating app Jack’d’s ‘We Need More Kisses‘ campaign which aims to tackle homophobia in Latin American societies.
The campaign team was filming a promo video on the streets of Medellin, Colombia, when a pair of police officers suddenly entered the scene and tried to pull the kissing gay couple apart, not knowing that a camera was rolling.
Jack’d has shared a video of what happened on their Twitter.
The video reads: ‘The police didn’t know that we were recording the couple—all they saw were two men kissing. They separated them with the intention of detaining them and it was only when our producer intervened that they backed off.’
It concludes with, ‘In order for this to not happen to others, we need more kisses, we need your kisses.’
Earlier in April, the Colombian government legalized same-sex marriage, thus becoming the fifth nation to do so in Latin America.
However, it seems that there is still much work to be done to combat homophobia and fight for tolerance and acceptance in the Catholic nation.
The ‘We Need More Kisses’ campaign encourages Latin American LGBT couples to record their public acts of affection for submission.
So far, there have been more than a dozen videos already posted on the campaign’s YouTube channel,