Ford builds Very Gay Raptor out of a Ranger Raptor Special Edn a strong stance agast homophobia. It buts at Christopher Street Day Cologne.
Contents:
- FORD BUILDS 'VERY GAY' RANGER RAPTOR IN RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC COMMENT
- THE FORD RANGER SPLASH AND #VERYGAYRAPTOR ARE TWO LORFUL TCKS
- FORD'S VERY GAY RAPTOR READY FOR GOODWOOD ACTN
- IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
- ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
- GO, GAY POWER RANGER!
- FORD RANGER MAK A SPLASH U.S., COM OUT AS GAY IN EUROPE
- FORD PROUDLY UNVEILS ‘VERY GAY’ R WH RABOWS AND GLTER SIGNED TO SHUT HOMOPHOB UP
- FORD ACTUALLY BUILT A 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' RPONSE TO AN TER TROLL
- FORD GERMANY IS TAKG THIS “VERY GAY” RANGER RAPTOR TO COLOGNE’S PRI PARA
- FORD IS BRGG A NEW “VERY GAY” RAPTOR AT GOODWOOD
FORD BUILDS 'VERY GAY' RANGER RAPTOR IN RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC COMMENT
Jt unr a year ago, Ford created the 'Very Gay Raptor' rponse to a ment ma about the Ford Rang... * gay ranger *
It was also created due to a specific, negative social media menter that lled the Raptor's origal lor of Performance Blue "very gay. " As such, Ford specifilly named this pickup the Very Gay Raptor. Gallery: Ctom 'Very Gay' Ford Ranger Raptor Regnizg the discrimatory tone of the ment, the tomaker rpond wh an over-the-top image of a rabow Ranger to make the pany's posn very clear.
Addnally, Ford's GLOBE (Gay, Lbian, or Bisexual Employe) work celebrat s 25th anniversary this year, supportg LGBTQ+ employe and diversy the workplace.
The Very Gay Raptor will be on display Cologne through Augt 28 and partake the annual ColognePri 2021 para on Sunday. (Ford)As a rponse to an onle menter who referred to the European Ford Ranger Raptor’s Performance Blue pat as "very gay, " Ford created a #VeryGayRaptor wh a rabow and gold flake pat scheme as part of s support for the Cologne Pri day celebratns this past weekend. Ford's Very Gay Raptor Ready For Goodwood Actn.
THE FORD RANGER SPLASH AND #VERYGAYRAPTOR ARE TWO LORFUL TCKS
As the Mighty Morph Power Rangers celebrat s 20th anniversary, David Yost, the actor who played the origal Blue Ranger, shar the story of how he overme bullyg Hollywood, suicidal tennci, and a nervo breakdown on the road to acceptg himself as a gay man. * gay ranger *
Jt unr a year ago, Ford created the 'Very Gay Raptor' rponse to a ment ma about the Ford Ranger Raptor's Performance Blue lor.
FORD'S VERY GAY RAPTOR READY FOR GOODWOOD ACTN
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. * gay ranger *
In sence, that r was signed to make the loust and most homophobic of Ford's crics unfortable while showg support for the LGBTQ+ muny. Ford cid should make one after a renrg of the tck went viral on Twter, and here we year, the Very Gay Raptor (VGR, as Ford lls ), is makg a eback for the Goodwood Ftival of Speed, where will but alongsi an all-new electric Ford Supervan wh the aim of "reaffirmg Ford's long-term mment to LGBTQ+ allyship.
Ford will also be holdg live ssns of s YouTube seri "Tough Talks" wh host Gareth Thomas, the first openly gay gby unn player. The ments sectn on one of the Tough Talks vios is filled wh appallg homophobic ments om hasn't gone to great tail on what we'll be seeg om the Ranger Raptor at Goodwood, sayg that 'll be tacklg Goodwood's off-road track between ns up the famo hillclimb. That will hopefully give a better ia of what this tck is pable of, as Ford looks to irk more homophob the procs.
IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
The gay ranger who is helpg make the Natnal Park Service a ltle more queer. * gay ranger *
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen hop to spire others by publicly g out as gay. Katie Sowers was the first female NFL ach to e out as gay.
ORIGAL BLUE POWER RANGER DAVID YOST ON GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX'S POWER RANGERS RNN SPECIAL
* gay ranger *
” This latt Pri enavor on the heels of last year’s "Very Gay Ranger Raptor" Europe, which was "veloped to showse the tomaker’s culture of clivens and ntued support of the LGBTQ+ muny, " Ford fact, was created rponse to a Europe tweeted a vio, after unveilg s blue Ford Ranger Raptor, that one onle ment "stopped our tracks. — But that blue lor is very Gay!!
"What happened next was a masterclass shuttg down homophobic trolls, " wrote The Advote Augt of Europe stead tweeted a vio of a "Very Gay Raptor" wh rabows and gold glter, makg clear Ford stands up to discrimatory speech as an LGBTQ year, the Ford Pri team Dearborn felt need to step up and created the Ford Pri Mutrynowski, 38, a global market retail strategist om Ann Arbor and member of the Ford Pri team, told the Free Prs on Friday that the pany sent three people om Dearborn to support the Ford team Ford participate the para, he said, is creative reprentatn of the muny. "While Mutrynowski uld not attend the Memphis event, he do plan to participate the Detro event, which will beg downtown at Griswold and Fort streets and travel down Griswold to Jefferson and end at the Hart Plaza ftival a gay man, he said he feels Pri events publicly rerce support for people our workplac and throughout our muni. Origal Blue Power Ranger David Yost on gay reprentatn Netflix's Power Rangers rnn special "It's taken a long time to get there, " says the actor, who me out as gay after leavg Mighty Morph Power Rangers 1996.
In the begng, I certaly didn't want people to know that I was gay, " he said.
GO, GAY POWER RANGER!
Ford rpond to a homophobic social media ment by showg the world what a very Gay, very proud Ranger Raptor looks like * gay ranger *
""I put myself through nversn therapy bee I didn't wanna be gay. David Yost says he knew he was gay by the time he was the send gra. For Yost, the journey to accept himself as a gay man has been filled wh fear, danger, and self-loathg.
"In the church I went to as a kid, I always got msag that beg gay was wrong, that was a s and agast God. People church would make horrible ments about gay people, and while they weren't talkg about me specifilly, I knew they were, bee I knew I was gay. It was there, he says, that his feelgs of self-loathg eased and he took his first steps toward acceptg himself as a gay man.
A., I ma a pact wh myself that I would no longer be gay, " Yost says. So I had nvced myself that meant I wasn't gay.
FORD RANGER MAK A SPLASH U.S., COM OUT AS GAY IN EUROPE
He was regularly lled antigay slurs like "faggot, " and he learned his stars were qutned private about his sexualy by producers on a number of ocsns. I jt wanted to be left alone and allowed to act, but this 'gay thg' kept gettg my way. I didn't want to be gay, and I was sred speakg up would jeopardize my reer.
"Dperate to rega ntrol of his life, Yost unrwent gay-to-straight "nversn therapy" durg the followg two years before eventually led to a nervo breakdown.
"I would love to see a gay character troduced on a show like Power Rangers, " he says.
FORD PROUDLY UNVEILS ‘VERY GAY’ R WH RABOWS AND GLTER SIGNED TO SHUT HOMOPHOB UP
"There's a whole realm of possible stori there we've only begun to tap to, and gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, qutng, and tersex young people need to see themselv reflected world around them. People were psyched at the very mentn of LGBT reprentatn a film marketed toward young adults, and Power Rangers was hailed as the first mastream superhero film to but a gay hero. "One of is probably gay, maybe — who knows?
FORD ACTUALLY BUILT A 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' RPONSE TO AN TER TROLL
"LnsgateAnd that’s , that was the whole of Lnsgate’s big, progrsive moment for gay reprentatn superhero films. Was “proud” to play a gay superhero, and all the stori that lled the film “groundbreakg”, the moment hardly left a nt. “You’re like me, ” she says, suggtg that Tri beg queer mak her the most rpt-able of the five ’s rejectn of “labels” on the heels of Disney’s big, failed LeFou storyle Bety and the Beast, which was so nsequential that many fans uldn’t even figure out which scene the pany was referrg to as an “exclively gay moment.
” LeFou, as many crics have poted out by now, was origally a gay mstrel show character Disney’s animated film, styled like a dandy and trippg over himself to get close to Gaston, a buff alpha male. In 2017’s Bety and the Beast, LeFou danc wh a man who enjoys cross-drsg, which isn’t exactly the empowerg, fely gay moment of reprentatn that Disney promised viewers they’d LeFou's dandy wear supposed to be spirg? Sulu, Paramount said, would be portrayed the Abrams Star Trek universe as a gay man.
Paramount PicturThe answer for fans hungry to see stori about queer people their favore anchis isn’t necsarily to boytt anythg but to take announcements om studs about gay reprentatn wh a gigantic gra of salt, and maybe some cynicism.
FORD GERMANY IS TAKG THIS “VERY GAY” RANGER RAPTOR TO COLOGNE’S PRI PARA
Meanwhile, an ocean away, Europeans are gettg the “Very Gay Raptor Ranger” the most pathetic example of rporate panrg recent memory. Ford seemgly has you vered wh the Very Gay Raptor Ranger. But nobody n buy and the entire pickup is allegedly based around the premise that Ford took some social media menter to school after they said Performance Blue was a “very gay” lor.
Showsg the Very Gay Raptor would fely hold more meang if multatnal pani didn’t spend the last two years dog this exact thg Wtern markets while downplayg LGBT mpaigns regns where homosexualy has been crimalized or emed broadly unpopular. Ford’s ‘Very Gay’ Ranger Raptor (Ford). 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.
FORD IS BRGG A NEW “VERY GAY” RAPTOR AT GOODWOOD
“‘Very Gay’ was a pliment, right?