NPR's Pla Money podst looks at how Suba began marketg to the gay and lbian muny, and how helped turn around the pany the '90s.
Contents:
- THE ARE THE TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN CARS
- GAY-FRIENDLY CARS: IS SUBA NUMBER ONE?
- ARE SUBAS REALLY GAY RS?
- HOW SUBA SAVED SELF BY MARKETG TO THE GAY MUNY
THE ARE THE TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN CARS
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GAY-FRIENDLY CARS: IS SUBA NUMBER ONE?
Mastream movi and TV shows wh gay characters—like Will & Grace—were still a few years away, and few celebri were openly gay. When Ellen Degener beme a rare exceptn 1997, and her character the show Ellen me out as gay an episo of the s, many pani pulled their ads.
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You’d be known as a gay pany.
ARE SUBAS REALLY GAY RS?
” In the 1990s, Poux worked at Mulryan/Nash, an agency that specialized the gay market.
HOW SUBA SAVED SELF BY MARKETG TO THE GAY MUNY
“All the l of marketg went out the wdow at this fear” of marketg to gays and lbians, he says.
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.