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Contents:
- REPRENTG FIFTY SHAS OF GAY THE LGBTQ+ MARKETPLACE
- GAY & LBIAN CONSUMER INX STUDY
- SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
REPRENTG FIFTY SHAS OF GAY THE LGBTQ+ MARKETPLACE
The LGBTQ+ populatn is predicted to swell to 1 billn by 2050, prentg a vast and creasgly nuanced nsumer base for brands to appreciate. Wh Pri month g, Tag Warner, CEO of GAY TIMES – a global publisher + now brand advisory group – outl key strategi for June, and beyond * lgbt consumer *
Acrdg to GAY TIMES analysis (g a batn IPSOS and UN Populatn data) ’s a group predicted to h 1 billn globally by 2050, wh Gallup’s 2022 study revealg 7. Here, Tag Warner, CEO of GAY TIMES – a magaze and now media group wh a powerful brand advisory arm nourished by a soarg social media prence and a 4.
Redrsg a 2016-iated brilliantly subversive but also highly divisive mpaign where fully lored s famo rabow-lored packagg to honor the ‘most important rabow’ (ntroversial bee some perceived the all-whe sign as promotg the racist whe pri movement) for 2021 partnered wh GAY TIMES and LGBTQ+ helple Swchboard to lorize black-and-whe archive photos om Pri celebratns of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Servicg this, last year GAY TIMES partnered wh Reebok on the Your Hometown mpaign, centerg the stori of LGBTQ+ teenagers Northern Brish ci. Documentary shorts, stills and quot featured across Gay Tim’ portfol, on Reebok and (footwear retailer) Schuh’s social media platforms, and activatns Schuh flagships.
GAY & LBIAN CONSUMER INX STUDY
CMI's LGBT Consumer Inx is a prehensive and mographilly reprentative LGBT nsumer study wh over 30,000 survey participants. This report explor motivatns, preferenc and sensivi, and tracks nsumer trends the gay and lbian market. * lgbt consumer *
“Sport is a fascatg place bee statistilly LGBTQ+ people tend to be more unf – fuelled by the way profsnal sports is a very heteronormative terra; nsir the environment that exists that means there are currently no openly Gay profsnal footballers the UK, and what that means to LGBTQ+ nsumers. Bankg too, is ripe for an update (as an dtry wh servic predomantly ground heterosexual fay-centered liftyl) and mental health, another space where LGBTQ+ behavrs tend to differ; GAY TIMES is also early discsns about a project wh Anglo-Amerin mdfulns app, Headspace.
SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS
Gillian W. Oakenfull, What Matters: Factors Influencg Gay Consumers' Evaluatns of "Gay-Friendly" Corporate Activi, Journal of Public Policy & Marketg, Vol. 32, SPECIAL ISSUE (2013), pp. 79-89 * lgbt consumer *
For 2021 was reterpreted aga as #ProudInMyCalvs featurg artists cludg rerd producers Ar and Honey Dijon celebratg fg moments the queer and trans journey, followed by GAY TIMES own story-sharg via s newly formed GT133 group of TikTok-based ntent creators (a micro llective who rpond to topil stori at speed). ” Warner reveals that GAY TIMES is currently discsg a partnership regardg this foc wh a datg app (tails to be revealed later this) anchored fdg love rather than hook-ups. A very different creature to the pre-Warner era where the dience was domated by whe, gay, fortysomethg men ( now boasts an equal genr spl and a broad trans-generatnal mix, om tweens to those their 60s and 70s) Warner reveals GAY TIMES is planng to build on s transn om pure publisher-to-brand builr by beg a full “cultural platform verg rmatn, products and servic.
”Tag Warner, pneerg CEO of GAY TIMESGAY TIMES (photography by Man Hill-Murphy / stylg by Solly Warner / make-up by David Smero). AbstractThe creasg visibily of homosexualy society, bed wh the lbian and gay muny's nsirable buyg power, has triggered marketers and rearchers' tert unrstandg homosexual nsumers' nsumptn patterns. Prr rearch on whether homosexual nsumers behave differently om heterosexual nsumers has yield mixed rults, and rearchers and practners still do not know whether any substantial differenc exist, what the differenc look like, and how they n be explaed.
Fdgs om a morator analysis ntradict nventnal wisdom and lay theori, while partly supportg assumptns that are rooted evolutnary and blogil theori that show nsumptn differenc crease wh age; they crease when parg homosexuals and heterosexuals of the same genr.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
Ctomer Behavr - The number of non-Hispanic adults the Uned Stat who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT) has risen 30% sce 2007, acrdi * lgbt consumer *
The fdgs, which qutn long-held beliefs about homosexual nsumers, help marketers to succsfully adjt their strategi.
Sce the dawn of the polilly-motivated “Dream Market” the 1990s, whe, affluent, gay mal uld expect to see themselv gay prt magaz and onle portals, natnal ad mpaigns the media, and, creasgly, mastream media, particularly televisn and news media, while advertisers left the rt of the LGBTQ+ populatn, cludg all people of lor, out the ld. The Ls, Bs, Ts, and Qs were expected to see themselv reprented by advertisg to whe gay mal and be thankful for the visibily.
Clarify advocy and reprentatn In recent years, some advertisers have shifted away om “reprentg” all LGBTQ+ nsumers wh imag of gay mal towards advertisg that highlights the stggl of transgenr dividuals. For s, the advertisg dtry has neglected female members of the LGBTQ+ populatn wh a bias towards gay mal; this even though femal are more likely than mal to intify as LGBTQ+. Dpe the fact that a greater number of lbian upl have children than do gay men, gay men actually tend to be more equently portrayed wh fai pared to lbian upl.
Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized for the UK’s historic treatment of gay veterans followg a damng report tailg electric shock nversn therapy, sexual asslts and blackmail suffered by personnel over s. * lgbt consumer *
Acrdg to a recent Ipsos report, among the progrsg generatns, more LGBTQ+ people are choosg to intify as “fluid” rather than “non-fluid” (meang gay or lbian) as members of Gen-Z are far more likely than prev generatns to be plurisexual or attracted to more than one sex. Early rearch the field datg back to Frd’s Inversn Theory 1910 scribed gay men and lbians as “sexual verts”—implyg that homosexualy was some sense the reversal of “normal” sex.
” While gay men tend to be more feme than heterosexual men, they are no ls mascule than them; siarly, while lbians tend to be more mascule than heterosexual women, they are no ls feme. Hence, while Gen-Z and Millennials tend to e labels that proclaim the fluidy of their genr inty, Gen-X and Baby Boomers primarily label themselv "gay" or "lbian" and "man" or "woman" but genr flex practice.
To tly reprent and ronate wh LGBTQ+ nsumers, advertisers have to fight, walk, or dance (#n’tncelpri) the sho of all LGBTQ+ nsumers rather than jt chasg the pot of gold at the end of the gay male or, more recently, bary rabow.