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NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
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The ads would often feature people of the same sex domtic ntexts whout specifyg the nature of their market rearch revealed that lbians ma up a pillar of Suba’s ctomer base, the Japane pany leaned to the “gay vague” approach. One mid-1990s prt mpaign featured Subas wh license plat such as “XENALVR” (an alln to “Xena: Warrr Prcs, ” a show loved by some lbians) and “PTOWNIE” (a reference to Provcetown, Mass., a popular queer vatn spot) classic “gay vague” mercial om German tomaker Volkswagen buted durg the g-out episo of “Ellen” 1997. While queer viewers terpreted the men as a uple, straight viewers saw them as iends or Volkswagen didn’t tend for the ad to pict a gay uple, the pany’s rponse was unique bee “they said they didn’t md if people read that way, ” said Michael Wilke, a former Ad Age reporter and founr of AdRpect, a nonprof archive of queer reprentatn advertisg.