Why is still so shockg to see gay people mastream ads? At a time when every other mographic is practilly shoehorned to marketg for the sake of diversy, gays and lbians are still all but visible the TV advertisg landspe. But while you might not have seen many yourself, gay-themed TV ads are fely out there. To close out Gay Pri Month, we tracked down 50 of them om around the world and anized them to seven tegori that seem to keep poppg up ("Lbians Are Hot," "Don't Tell Mom," etc.). Check out the llectn after the jump.
Contents:
- NEW AMAZON AD BREAKS GROUND FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- THE 50 GAYT ADS EVER
- HERE'S THE FUNNY GAY RIGHTS AD THAT HAS OLYMPIC LUGERS FUR
- GAY RIGHTS
- LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
- ‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE
- GAY MOSW · CY GUI
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
NEW AMAZON AD BREAKS GROUND FOR GAY MARRIAGE
Amazon released a mercial that gay-rights advot say likely marks the first time the word "hband" was ed by a mastream brand on work televisn * gay rights commercial *
This mercial om CarGus was actually hailed “the gayt mercial of the year” by many. The 30-send ad shows one gay man shoppg for rs onle as he clar his need to “move on” and get “more space” for his outdoor gear.
The Norwegian postal service Posten went viral this Christmas after showg Santa Cls a gay relatnship. Tled When Harry met Santa, ’ the simply adorable queer love story marks the upg 50th anniversary sce homosexualy was crimalized the untry. His spir then appears, to everyone’s surprise, and he out as gay to all of his livg relativ, standg proudly and hand--hand wh another man – who is now his partner.
THE 50 GAYT ADS EVER
From CarGus to Doros, when me to mercials, 2021 was pretty gay. * gay rights commercial *
GLAAD and the nsumer products giant Procter & Gamble today announced the lnch of a new mpaign aimed at spirg greater cln and acceptance of lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenr people through marketg and advertisg. “Our hope through The Visibily Project is to help to create the sensivy and sensibily, not only the bs strategy, but behd the mera, ” add Brent Miller, P&G’s senr director of s Global LGBTQ+ Equaly Program, who is himself an out gay man. He scribed a letter out gay Olympian skier G Kenworthy received om a fan followg a mpaign tied to the 2018 Olympic Gam.
I'm a whe cisgenr gay man and there are people that are far ls privileged than I am.
HERE'S THE FUNNY GAY RIGHTS AD THAT HAS OLYMPIC LUGERS FUR
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At a time when every other mographic is practilly shoehorned to marketg for the sake of diversy, gays and lbians are still all but visible the TV advertisg landspe. But while you might not have seen many yourself, gay-themed TV ads are fely out there. But Target’s rponse has trated supporters of gay and transgenr rights, who argued the pany ved to bigoted prsure.
Ron DeSantis stemmg om legislatn he signed that prohibs teachers om discsg sexual orientatn and genr inty class, known by crics as “Don’t Say Gay. Although Target was actg to protect employe, some rporate marketg experts say the pany’s rponse uld emboln gay and transgenr rights opponents to target other brands. Recently joed the Fair and Equal Michigan effort to amend the state’s civil rights law to ver lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr dividuals.
Pri flags have been a symbol for the LGBTQ+ muny sce 1977 when Harvey Milk, polician and gay-rights activist, challenged Gilbert Baker, a U. Ron DeSantis (R) has doubled down on an ad for his printial mpaign that cricized former Print Donald Tmp’s history of pro-LGBTQ ments, sayg Wednday the ad was “totally fair game” even as garnered wispread cricism om both sis of the aisle as beg homophobic. The DeSantis mpaign ad garnered wispread cricism om the left, wh Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who is gay, sayg he “do[n’t].
GAY RIGHTS
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * gay rights commercial *
DeSantis has garnered wispread ntroversy as ernor for his history of phg polici that crics cry as beg anti-LGBTQ, cludg rtrictns on drag shows and genr-affirmg re and the state’s Parental Rights Edutn bill, known by crics as “Don’t Say Gay.
LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
A Christian graphic artist who the Supreme Court said n refe to make weddg webs for gay upl poted durg her lawsu to a requt om a man named “Stewart” and his hband-to-be. * gay rights commercial *
A popular Canadian ad promotg gay rights at the Olympics has h a nerve wh some Amerin lugers, reports the New York Tim. The Early Gay Rights Movement In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found Chigo the Society for Human Rights, the first documented gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Young mothers Yana and Yaroslava don’t want to leave Rsia wh their 6-year-old son. But they fear a harsh new anti-gay law passed by Rsian lawmakers will leave them ltle choice. * gay rights commercial *
Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. And durg World War II, the Nazis held homosexual men ncentratn mps, brandg them wh the famo pk triangle badge, which was also given to sexual predators.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
Gay Mosw Cy Gui for gay travelers. Review of the cy, gay scene, how to get there, travel tips, popular tourist attractns Mosw. * gay rights commercial *
Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.
‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE
The Los Angel anizatn ed the term “homophile, ” which was nsired ls clil and foced on sexual activy than “homosexual. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.
That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive orr that banned gay people—or, more specifilly, people guilty of “sexual perversn”—om feral jobs.
This ban would rema effect for some 20 Rights the 1960sThe gay rights movement saw some early progrs In the 1960s.
GAY MOSW · CY GUI
In 1961, Illois beme the first state to do away wh s anti-sodomy laws, effectively crimalizg homosexualy, and a lol TV statn California aired the first documentary about homosexualy, lled The 1965, Dr. In fact, gay men and women New York Cy uld not be served alhol public due to liquor laws that nsired the gatherg of homosexuals to be “disorrly. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue.
They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.
Sylvia Rivera was a Lata-Amerin drag queen who beme one of the most radil gay and transgenr activists of the 1960s and '70s. As -founr of the Gay Liberatn Front, Rivera was known for participatg the Stonewall Rts and tablishg the polil anizatn STAR (Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari).
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
After the Stonewall Rts, a msage was pated on the outsi of the board-up bar readg, "We homosexuals plead wh out people to please help mata peaceful and quiet nduct on the streets of the village. " This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay reportg the events, The New York Daily News rorted to homophobic slurs s tailed verage, nng the headle: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad. More and more supporters gathered outsi the bar, chantg slogans like “gay power” and “we shall overe.
”Over the next several nights, gay activists ntued to gather near the Stonewall, takg advantage of the moment to spread rmatn and build the muny that would fuel the growth of the gay rights movement.