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Kisses on the wind

By Scott Dagostino • August 17, 2009 4:33 am EDT

It was a lip-smackin’ weekend:

— the “kiss-in” protests throughout the US went off in high style (YouTube is stuffed with clips from around the country):

— Montreal had kisses for anyone and everyone who celebrated Pride with them:

— the National Post gave Toronto city councillor Kyle Rae one of those ‘Godfather’ style kisses:

— and not-drunk, not-high singer George Michael kissed a truck!

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A former editor of the late, lamented fab magazine, Scott has been writing for Xtra since 2007 on a variety of topics in news pieces, interviews, blogs, reviews and humour pieces. He lives on the Danforth with his boyfriend of 12 years, a manic Jack Russell Terrier, a well-stocked mini-bar and a shelf of toy Daleks.

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