Life on the Road as a Gay Couple

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO TRAVEL AMERI AS A GAY COUPLE LIVG AN RV: EPISO 2 OF TRAVEL + LEISURE’S NEW PODST (VIO)

Matt and Brad Kirouac share their experienc travelg the U.S. an RV on a qut to vis every natnal park on this episo of "Let's Go Together." "Lets Go Together" Episo Two: Park Pri: A Gay Couple's Journey Around Ameri was released June 17, 2020." emprop="scriptn * le gay couple driving original *

But that has never stifled their love of natnal parks, which as Matt said say for Travel + Leisure, are "a source of fort and cln, pecially as a hikg-obssed gay man hoofg through red stat. When a 1994 IKEA ad featured a gay uple, the Amerin Fay Associatn, a nonprof, mounted boytts, and someone lled a (fake) bomb threat to an IKEA Poux explas, the attu of most bs toward LGBTQ advertisg was: “Why would you do somethg like that? Wrg The Huffgton Post, the reporter Ron Dicker ptured some of the cultural nfn that followed:When one Suba ad man … proposed the gay-targetg ads talks wh Japane executiv, the executiv hurriedly looked up “gay” their dictnari.

A lbian uple was kicked out of an Uber New Jersey on their way to a Zac Brown Band ncert bee they are gay. The driver has been banned om the app. * le gay couple driving original *

While Bent, who is gay, didn’t reveal his sexual orientatn for fear of overshadowg the effort, he nohels rells holdg pany meetgs wh nam along the l of “Who Are Gays and Lbians? Suba of Ameri knew had to support s gay and lbian employe if wanted to appeal to lbian ctomers, so they schled a meetg wh a senr Japane executive to make the se for domtic-partnership benefs.

Like nerds who grow up to nont their bulli, Suba executiv me to realize that the people opposg the acknowledgment of gays and lbians were not as imposg as they of the reasons that, the days, the rmaker’s role cultivatg s lbian-iendly image is ls well known is that so many straight people were bld to the subtext of the s first Suba ads, Mulryan/Nash hired women to portray lbian upl.

Even after an hour of talkg about gay issu, they’d thk a man was shoppg wh his articl at the time, Suba executiv said they felt uncerta about the “trigue” created by the perceptn of “secret dg. As more pani began marketg to LGBTQ dienc, such dg—which fell unr the tegory of the new marketg term “gay vague”—beme a way for pani to reach queer dienc wh mimal risk of a nservative said, Suba did not hi s support of gay and lbian ctomers.

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While Volkswagen played y about whether an ad perceived as gay-iendly really portrayed a gay uple, Suba sponsored events like gay-pri paras, partnered wh the Rabow Card, a cred rd that stead of sh back offered donatns to gay and lbian , and hired Marta Navratilova, a former tennis pro and a lbian, to appear Suba ads.

She had been outed agast her will, and while she spoke hontly about her sexual orientatn, she had lamented that gay athlet had “to hi the closet to sell [themselv] to Madison Avenue. ” For her to bee the face of a r pany durg her retirement, says the Rabow Card -creator Pam Derrian, was a betiful, full-circle ’s gay-and-lbian–foced marketg mpaign was a h, and the pany’s efforts ntue today.

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WHAT IT’S LIKE TO TRAVEL AMERI AS A GAY COUPLE LIVG AN RV: EPISO 2 OF TRAVEL + LEISURE’S NEW PODST (VIO)