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LONDON - British viewers will see their first homosexual kiss in a television advertisement this month when two gay men embrace…

LONDON - British viewers will see their first homosexual kiss in a television advertisement this month when two gay men embrace in an ad for a new brand of vodka. "As well as the gay kiss, there's a heterosexual kiss, there's lots of single people, lots of people laughing," a spokeswoman for the vodka company said.

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