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# Gay rights campaigners plan kissing 'flashmob' for Pope's visit
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## Gay rights activists are planning a homosexual kissing protest in front of
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Pope Benedict XVI when he visits Barcelona this weekend.
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![Gay rights activists are planning a homosexual kissing protest in front of
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Pope Benedict XVI when he visits Barcelona this weekend. ][1]
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'We are hoping for a crowd of people of the same sex who will kiss each other
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for two minutes in front of the Pope,' said Marylene Carole, one of the
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organisers Photo: ALAMY
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9:17PM GMT 01 Nov 2010
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Organisers plan for same-sex couples to gather and kiss in a so-called
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flashmob protest when the Pope arrives to consecrate the city's Sagrada
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Familia church and celebrate mass in **[Spain][2] **on November 7.
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"We are hoping for a crowd of people of the same sex who will kiss each other
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for two minutes in front of the Pope," said Marylene Carole, one of the
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organisers.
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"After two minutes, the flashmob will finish and each participant will leave
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as if nothing happened," she said.
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The organisers, a group of half a dozen friends who say they are not
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affiliated to any association, are inviting people via Facebook, Twitter, and
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a** [blog][3]** to take part.
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They complained that Facebook had taken down two "event pages" titled Queer
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Kissing Flashmob that were being used to advertise the protest, without giving
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a clear explanation.
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"The reason is to show our unhappiness with an institution which for a long
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time has been against the sexual and emotional rights of many people who do
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not practice exclusively reproductive sex or people who do not love each other
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in the way that the institution thinks is right," Ms Carole said.
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Another of the organisers, Joan Perez, said about 300 people so far plan to
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attend.
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He said there had been a bigger response to the initial Facebook page but it
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had been removed.
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The idea for the protest was completely spontaneous, Mr Perez said. He added
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that the idea was to make a symbolic and completely peaceful protest.
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The Pope will visit Santiago de Compostela, one of the Roman Catholic Church's
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holiest sites, on November 6.
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He then travels to Barcelona for the November 7 consecration of Sagrada
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Familia, the emblematic building of architect Antoni Gaudi that has been under
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construction since 1882.
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