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Contents:

• WHAT ARE THE TOP GAY-FRIENDLY CARS?
• FORD PROUDLY UNVEILS ‘VERY GAY’ R WH RABOWS AND GLTER SIGNED TO SHUT HOMOPHOB UP
• FORD ROLLS OUT 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC TROLL
• GAY-FRIENDLY CARS: IS SUBA NUMBER ONE?
• THE 10 BT CARS WHICH TO GET GAY-MARRIED
• GAYS LOVE RS, AND NOW THERE’S A PLACE TO MEET AND GATHER
• THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER IS OUT AND PROUD, AND CHASG HIS MOTORSPORTS DREAM
• GAYT OF THE RUN: FORD MTANGBY BRETT BERKOCTOBER 23, 2008SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHERE ARE A NUMBER OF VEHICLE NAMEPLAT THAT HAVE BEEN NTUO PRODUCTN FOR S, BUT FEW ARE AS INIC AS THE MOL WE SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK'S GAYT OF THE RUN FEATURE: THE FORD MTANG. CREDED WH CREATG, AND GIVG NAME TO, THE "PONY R" CLASS OF AFFORDABLE, SPORTY, YOUTH-ORIENTED TWO-DOORS, THE MTANG WAS AND REMAS AN EXEMPLAR OF TRADNAL AMERIN MASCULY: LOUD, UNREFED, AND NOT PARTICULARLY AGILE. HOWEVER, DURG S NEARLY 45-YEAR TENURE, WAS EVABLE THAT SOME OFFSPRG OM THE HYPER-BUTCH EQUE LE WOULD E OUT A LTLE…LIGHTER THEIR GOODYEARS THAN THE RT OF THEIR SIBLGS. WHY ELSE WOULD WE HAVE CHOSEN THE STANG AS OUR OFFICIAL STICK SHIFT MAST? (SEE UP THERE, ALL RABOW HUED, AND HORNILY MOUNTG 'S CLONE?) ANYWAY, HERE ARE OUR CHOIC FOR THE FIVE GAYT MTANGS EVER MA, ONE OM EACH OF THE R'S FIVE BASIC GENERATNS. VOTE OUR POLL FOR THE ONE YOU THK IS THE GAYT OF THE RUN.GENERATN 1 (1964-1969): 1966 SHELBY GT-HTHE SHELBY GT-H WAS AVAILABLE AS A RENTAL OM HERTZ, AND WAS OFTEN ED BY PEOPLE TERTED DOG DRAG ON THE WEEKENDS. (OKAY, DRAG RACG, BUT STILL.)AT ONCE BULGG AND TIGHTLY WRAPPED, LIKE A 1950S PHYSIQUE MOL.WATERED DOWN A TOUGH, ASPIRATNAL BRAND WH A POOR ANCHISG CISN—KD OF LIKE MTANG COLOGNE. (NOTE THE PRENCE OF A SIAR VEHICLE THIS AD.)GENERATN 2 (1970-1973): 1973 MTANG GRANWOULD YOU LOOK AT THE LENGTH OF THAT HOOD? INCH WERE ADD UP ONT FOR THIS RE-SIGN MAKG THE LONGT (AND THICKT) MTANG TO DATE. TLY A SIZE-QUEEN'S PARADISE.OVERVELOPED LTOIDS RISG UP ABOVE THE HOOD LE, FORESTG THE 'S CIPIENT HOMO-DRIVEN GYM CULTURE.MAYBE THE LEAST GAY OF OUR GAY MTANGS. (I ACTUALLY FD SORT OF GROTQUE AND MENACG.) BUT THE EPICENTER-OF-EVIL—SARAH PAL—HAD ONE HIGH SCHOOL, AND I THK WOULD BE HILAR IF THE R SHE DROVE THE 80S WERE VOTED GAYT OF THE N.GENERATN 3 (1974-1978): 1977 MTANG II GHIAWHEN THE MTANG WENT MANOREXIC ( RPONSE TO ABOVE-MENTNED BLOAT OF THE PREV GENERATN.)THE "STEREOTYPILLY" GAY PONY CAR: WIMPY, WEAK, UNRPOWERED, FEME.BASED ON THE PTO PLATFORM—FAMO FOR "GOG OFF" WHEN TAKEN OM THE REAR.MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPLGENERATN 4 (1979-2004): 1987 MTANG GTCOVERED LOUVERS, EXTENSNS, OPENGS, FLAR, AND SKIRTS LIKE SOME SORT OF ECSTASY-ED OUT, 80'S CLUB-KID.SHREDD, PEEK-A-BOO REAR-TAIL-LIGHT TREATMENT, SEEMGLY MOLED ON THE ASS OF GEE MICHAEL'S PANTS DURG THE SAME ERA.ITS WORKG NAME SI FORD WAS "FOX BODY" MTANG.GENERATN 5 (2005-PRENT): 2008 MTANG "BULT"INSPIRED BY THE R THE 1968 FILM BULT STARRG STEVE MCQUEEN, MY GAY STYLE IN. (P.S. MCQUEEN!)SPORT EXHST PUTER-TUNED TO MATCH THE SOUND OF THE R THE ORIGAL FILM. ONLY A GAY R WOULD RE THAT MUCH ABOUT SUCH A SUBTLE ASPECT OF S REAR END: 'S THE ANAL BLEACHG OF THE TOMOTIVE WORLD.BULITT? IT'S LIKE A LAME JOKE OF A BAD GAY PORNO TLE.VOTE YOUR CHOICE FOR GAYT OF THE RUN: FORD MTANG(POLLS)BRETT BERK IS A DETRO NATIVE, A LIFE-LONG R NUT, A GAY, AND THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE'S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT BRETT BERK
• THIS AD IS BEG LLED THE “GAYT COMMERCIAL OF 2021”
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

WHAT ARE THE TOP GAY-FRIENDLY CARS?

It’s no surprise that the vehicl most rearched by gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr shoppers are those produced by gay-iendly tomakers.

Classifi vehicle manufacturers as gay-iendly or not based on their rporate polici for offerg domtic-partner benefs to their employe the U.

Gaywheels has been keepg tabs on gay-iendly vehicl on a quarterly basis for the past 1.

FORD PROUDLY UNVEILS ‘VERY GAY’ R WH RABOWS AND GLTER SIGNED TO SHUT HOMOPHOB UP

“Sce the ceptn of this list, the Top 10 Most-Rearched Vehicl have always e solely om gay-iendly tomakers, leatg the importance of a brand’s rporate polici and posns regard to the gay muny, ” said Joe LaMuraglia, founr of. Apparently, we as a society are so wrapped up the ia of how "gay" objects, clothg styl, and activi are that we n't even leave tomobil out of ! Th, the guys at Car Talk, those te terers of r nversatn, have e up wh the: lists of the top 10 gay and lbian rs.

‘Surf Girls Hawai’i’ is the Real-Life ‘Blue Csh’ We’ve Waed 21 Years ForOffEnglishCar Talk took a pletely non-scientific poll and queried their lbian and gay listeners, and apparently some straight and bisexual people, too, askg for nomatns of the bt queer vehicl. Nomatns om gays, om lbians, om borg heterosexuals like ...

FORD ROLLS OUT 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC TROLL

Good for seemg utterly pretent and important the area of At's Wt Camp, where I lived wedged between sorory, so how about the Top 10 Gay Cars? The 3-seri is on the gay list?

Is VW to gay men what Suba is to lbian women? As wh all the rs on the list that have been stereotyped as “gay, ” the Forter is stylish, strayg om the “strong” or “bold” more mascule sign. The notn that a product is girly or feme was also associated wh beg gay.

GAY-FRIENDLY CARS: IS SUBA NUMBER ONE?

The general ia was that gay mal were effemate and would have an affy for “girly” products. You n see how this would have been terpreted as homophobic when the LGBT muny felt margalized and targeted. There exist r brands that are known as “gay iendly.

One of the pani is Volkswagen, which offers domtic partner verage for their gay staff members. The gays support Volkswagen bee Volkswagen supports them.

I bet you didn’t know this, but gays are said to fancy style while lbians favor fuel enomy. In Febary of 2021, Tla was voted the number one place for gays and lbians alike to work ncerng safety, rights, and regnn. It is not unmon to see gays and lbians alike drivg a Tla.

THE 10 BT CARS WHICH TO GET GAY-MARRIED

Regardls of the tentn, maybe was jt gays or lbians who preferred style and fuel enomy. This show foced on the liv of three gay men who were iends livg Manchter and the many plexi their liv had.

” So whenever you’d see a Jeep Wrangler, you’d immediately thk of gay men Manchter. For the gays who prefer the sign facet when to rs, this is tricky but surprisgly easy to rencile. What is nsired “mascule” also appli to the gay man, who would have to thunk , right?

GAYS LOVE RS, AND NOW THERE’S A PLACE TO MEET AND GATHER

Gay Friendly Ci.

Ford’s ‘Very Gay’ Ranger Raptor (Ford).

THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER IS OUT AND PROUD, AND CHASG HIS MOTORSPORTS DREAM

When a homophobic troll scribed the new blue Ford Ranger Raptor as “gay”, Ford jt upped the ante and created a “Very Gay Raptor” stead.

Ford of Germany unveiled an LGBT+ versn of the popular tck on Friday (27 Augt) rponse to a menter on social media who cricised the ‘Performance Blue’ lour as “gay” and asked them to pat “black and gold or mo” stead. The ment “stopped our tracks, ” Ford said, so they clapped back wh an animatn showg what an actual gay r would look like. The new and improved “Very Gay Raptor” is adorned rabows and gold dt, plete wh a pk love heart on the boot.

GAYT OF THE RUN: FORD MTANGBY BRETT BERKOCTOBER 23, 2008SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHERE ARE A NUMBER OF VEHICLE NAMEPLAT THAT HAVE BEEN NTUO PRODUCTN FOR S, BUT FEW ARE AS INIC AS THE MOL WE SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK'S GAYT OF THE RUN FEATURE: THE FORD MTANG. CREDED WH CREATG, AND GIVG NAME TO, THE "PONY R" CLASS OF AFFORDABLE, SPORTY, YOUTH-ORIENTED TWO-DOORS, THE MTANG WAS AND REMAS AN EXEMPLAR OF TRADNAL AMERIN MASCULY: LOUD, UNREFED, AND NOT PARTICULARLY AGILE. HOWEVER, DURG S NEARLY 45-YEAR TENURE, WAS EVABLE THAT SOME OFFSPRG OM THE HYPER-BUTCH EQUE LE WOULD E OUT A LTLE…LIGHTER THEIR GOODYEARS THAN THE RT OF THEIR SIBLGS. WHY ELSE WOULD WE HAVE CHOSEN THE STANG AS OUR OFFICIAL STICK SHIFT MAST? (SEE UP THERE, ALL RABOW HUED, AND HORNILY MOUNTG 'S CLONE?) ANYWAY, HERE ARE OUR CHOIC FOR THE FIVE GAYT MTANGS EVER MA, ONE OM EACH OF THE R'S FIVE BASIC GENERATNS. VOTE OUR POLL FOR THE ONE YOU THK IS THE GAYT OF THE RUN.GENERATN 1 (1964-1969): 1966 SHELBY GT-HTHE SHELBY GT-H WAS AVAILABLE AS A RENTAL OM HERTZ, AND WAS OFTEN ED BY PEOPLE TERTED DOG DRAG ON THE WEEKENDS. (OKAY, DRAG RACG, BUT STILL.)AT ONCE BULGG AND TIGHTLY WRAPPED, LIKE A 1950S PHYSIQUE MOL.WATERED DOWN A TOUGH, ASPIRATNAL BRAND WH A POOR ANCHISG CISN—KD OF LIKE MTANG COLOGNE. (NOTE THE PRENCE OF A SIAR VEHICLE THIS AD.)GENERATN 2 (1970-1973): 1973 MTANG GRANWOULD YOU LOOK AT THE LENGTH OF THAT HOOD? INCH WERE ADD UP ONT FOR THIS RE-SIGN MAKG THE LONGT (AND THICKT) MTANG TO DATE. TLY A SIZE-QUEEN'S PARADISE.OVERVELOPED LTOIDS RISG UP ABOVE THE HOOD LE, FORESTG THE 'S CIPIENT HOMO-DRIVEN GYM CULTURE.MAYBE THE LEAST GAY OF OUR GAY MTANGS. (I ACTUALLY FD SORT OF GROTQUE AND MENACG.) BUT THE EPICENTER-OF-EVIL—SARAH PAL—HAD ONE HIGH SCHOOL, AND I THK WOULD BE HILAR IF THE R SHE DROVE THE 80S WERE VOTED GAYT OF THE N.GENERATN 3 (1974-1978): 1977 MTANG II GHIAWHEN THE MTANG WENT MANOREXIC ( RPONSE TO ABOVE-MENTNED BLOAT OF THE PREV GENERATN.)THE "STEREOTYPILLY" GAY PONY CAR: WIMPY, WEAK, UNRPOWERED, FEME.BASED ON THE PTO PLATFORM—FAMO FOR "GOG OFF" WHEN TAKEN OM THE REAR.MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPLGENERATN 4 (1979-2004): 1987 MTANG GTCOVERED LOUVERS, EXTENSNS, OPENGS, FLAR, AND SKIRTS LIKE SOME SORT OF ECSTASY-ED OUT, 80'S CLUB-KID.SHREDD, PEEK-A-BOO REAR-TAIL-LIGHT TREATMENT, SEEMGLY MOLED ON THE ASS OF GEE MICHAEL'S PANTS DURG THE SAME ERA.ITS WORKG NAME SI FORD WAS "FOX BODY" MTANG.GENERATN 5 (2005-PRENT): 2008 MTANG "BULT"INSPIRED BY THE R THE 1968 FILM BULT STARRG STEVE MCQUEEN, MY GAY STYLE IN. (P.S. MCQUEEN!)SPORT EXHST PUTER-TUNED TO MATCH THE SOUND OF THE R THE ORIGAL FILM. ONLY A GAY R WOULD RE THAT MUCH ABOUT SUCH A SUBTLE ASPECT OF S REAR END: 'S THE ANAL BLEACHG OF THE TOMOTIVE WORLD.BULITT? IT'S LIKE A LAME JOKE OF A BAD GAY PORNO TLE.VOTE YOUR CHOICE FOR GAYT OF THE RUN: FORD MTANG(POLLS)BRETT BERK IS A DETRO NATIVE, A LIFE-LONG R NUT, A GAY, AND THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE'S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT BRETT BERK

“‘Very Gay’ was a pliment, right?

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‘Very Gay’ was a pliment, right?

#VeryGayRaptor. Both rs were on full display as the cy celebrated Pri over the weekend, wh the “Very Gay Raptor” ed as the official Ford vehicle for the para. Saw the @FordEu #VeryGayRaptor outsi my wdow this morng and jt had to go for a closer look #FordPri #ColognePri #Pri2021.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

#Fordpri #VeryGayRaptor.

#VeryGayRaptor #pri #LGBTQ. Ford Very Gay RaptorWhen Ford Germany recently unveiled s new blue Ford Ranger Raptor, got plenty of praise, but there was one piece of feedback the pany said “stopped our tracks.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

— But that blue lor is very Gay!! ” What happened next was a masterclass shuttg down homophobic a vio released on Twter by Ford Europe, the tomaker revealed s new and improved “Very Gay Raptor” cked out rabows and gold glter. A 60-hour procs saw the vehicle draped rabow and gold glter Alpha foil, then topped wh rabow and heart isn’t even the first time that Ford has cked out a Gay Pri vehicle.

Gays and lbians buy a lot of rs, and the to dtry has begun to regnize that.

A new survey (of 3, 685 rponnts) by and Senei reveals that 67 percent of both gay male and lbian r buyers nsir "very or somewhat important" for to pani to exhib a "gay-iendly" reputatn (when 's fed by whether the pany offers domtic partner benefs to s employe). And 42 percent of gay men and 39 percent of gay women report hoehold e above that level. Suba's woog of the gay and lbian dience seems to be workg--at least on one level--bee was the overwhelmg favore (chosen by 45 percent of rponnts, wh Volkswagen and Ford a distant send and third) as the most gay-iendly r pany.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

"We are fely perceived as gay iendly, " says Domick Infante, a Suba spokman.

Acrdg to Joe LaMuraglia, a former Nissan employee who now serv as 's publisher, Saab serv special mentn as the brand most over-reprented among gay and lbian buyers. Market, but gay men are 18 tim more likely to own one than is the general public.

"The rults show that when to marketg, gay men and lbians are two very distct groups, LaMuraglia said.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

Beg gay-iendly and havg good brand awarens are very posive factors, but the pani still have to have products that meet all their needs. Lbians, by the way, are more likely to buy a r based on environmental factors than are gay men. Gay men say their rs proclaim that they are "succsful, sexy and well-off.

This week, the Supreme Court saw the light, or at least the apex of the rabow, and granted gay Amerins—at least ferally—the right to dive to the matrimonial abyss. Of urse, rais an obv qutn for , answered here by one of our favore Car Gays—Brett Berk, Vany Fair’s “Stick Shift” lumnist and a equent Car and Driver ntributor—of what to drive to your gay weddg. Today’s gays and lbians raise fai jt as they always have but ever creasg, and creasgly open, numbers.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

Gays love for s name, wh s herent tensn between pursu and achievement. My urban, urbane gay and lbian iends are forever plagug me wh qutns of which r they should buy.

Massagg, reclg, air-ndned rear seats; a spectacular sound system; a profligate powerplant; and more than enough exclivy to separate you om the rt of the masspiratnal homosexuals their 7-seri, S-class, and A8s.

If were legal, I would gay-marry this r stead of my boyiend. There is an entire generatn of gays out there, myself clud, whose grandmothers owned one of the. Eighty-seven percent of profsnal-gra gays and lbians already own the rs, so they might as well drive them to their weddg.