Billboards featuring Barack Obama presiding over gay marriages between leading Republican politicians have been banned across America.

The images were created using lookalikes to announce the gay and lesbian versions of BeautifulPeople.com, the dating community exclusively for good-looking people.

As the ban came too late to change the campaign, the billboards were put up with the images obscured and the words “censored” written across them.

The censored billboards provoked a flurry of online speculation as to the identities of the couples.

One of the billboards shows a loving embrace between Rep­ublican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman and TV personality.

Another billboard features former presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann kissing Sarah Palin, the gun-toting former Alaska governor and darling of the American Right.

The ban happened across the country, even though one of them was to be put up right in the middle of the West Hollywood gay district.

The only place in America that would take the uncensored billboards was on the side of a truck. The billboard truck was driven all around New York before parking up outside Trump Towers – the imposing home of Mr Trump’s business empire.

The light-hearted campaign was conceived in response to the heated political debate about same-sex unions in the US.

The Supreme Court is due to hear several challenges to a 1996 law which defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

In May, President Obama came out in support of gay marriage, setting him apart from Mr Romney and the vast majority of Republicans.

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