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:
- THE 50 GAYT ADS EVER
- MASCULY AND GAY-FRIENDLY ADVERTISG: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE ITALIAN AND US MARKET
- HOW TO EARN LGBTQIA+ CTOMERS: A GAY MARKETER’S PRI MONTH PERSPECTIVE
- MASCULY AND GAY-FRIENDLY ADVERTISG: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE ITALIAN AND US MARKETMASCULY AND GAY-FRIENDLY ADVERTISG: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE ITALIAN AND US MARKETMASCULY AND GAY-FRIENDLY ADVERTISG: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE ITALIAN AND US MARKETMASCULY AND GAY-FRIENDLY ADVERTISG: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE ITALIAN AND US MARKETMASCULY AND GAY-FRIENDLY ADVERTISG: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE ITALIAN AND US MARKET
- THE GAY-FRIENDLY CI HAVE LOTS TO OFFER LGBTQ BUYERS—INCLUDG AFFORDABLE HOM
- PROCEEDGS OF THE 2022 INTERNATNAL CONFERENCE ON INTERNATNAL STUDI SOCIAL SCIENC AND HUMANI (CISOC 2022)HOMEPREFACEARTICLTHORSANIZERSPUBLISHG RMATN<PREV ARTICLE IN VOLUMENEXT ARTICLE IN VOLUME>GAY-FRIENDLY AS AN ADVERTISG ROURCE
THE 50 GAYT ADS EVER
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MASCULY AND GAY-FRIENDLY ADVERTISG: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE ITALIAN AND US MARKET
In this chapter, we look at the reprentatns of masculy gay-iendly prted adverts and mercials, focg on the tensns between marketg and soc-polil disurs that occur wh them. We also offer a parative perspective between... * gay friendly advertising *
”“This eHarmony ad brawash children and adults by sensizg them and nvcg them that homosexualy is natural, ” a statement on the One Milln Moms webse reads, “when realy is an unnatural love that is forbidn by Scripture jt like love rooted adultery is forbidn. But there's also a bs se to be ma: The lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny held $790 ln buyg power, acrdg to a 2012 timate om the Human Rights Campaign, a leadg LGBT advocy group. Google: Not only do Google (GOOG)have an ternal workg group for employe known as Gayglers, but ma a bold statement about LGBT rights ahead of the Wter Olympics Sochi last year.
When a 1994 IKEA ad featured a gay uple, the Amerin Fay Associatn, a nonprof, mounted boytts, and someone lled a (fake) bomb threat to an IKEA Poux explas, the attu of most bs toward LGBTQ advertisg was: “Why would you do somethg like that? 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.
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LGBTQIA+ Pri Month has a different meang to everyone. For one gay Microsoft Advertisg marketer, 's a month durg which he believ marketers and advertisers should be socially aware. Learn his three tips for earng LGBTQIA+ ctomers year-round. * gay friendly advertising *
Even after an hour of talkg about gay issu, they’d thk a man was shoppg wh his articl at the time, Suba executiv said they felt uncerta about the “trigue” created by the perceptn of “secret dg. As more pani began marketg to LGBTQ dienc, such dg—which fell unr the tegory of the new marketg term “gay vague”—beme a way for pani to reach queer dienc wh mimal risk of a nservative said, Suba did not hi s support of gay and lbian ctomers. While Volkswagen played y about whether an ad perceived as gay-iendly really portrayed a gay uple, Suba sponsored events like gay-pri paras, partnered wh the Rabow Card, a cred rd that stead of sh back offered donatns to gay and lbian , and hired Marta Navratilova, a former tennis pro and a lbian, to appear Suba ads.
She had been outed agast her will, and while she spoke hontly about her sexual orientatn, she had lamented that gay athlet had “to hi the closet to sell [themselv] to Madison Avenue.
THE GAY-FRIENDLY CI HAVE LOTS TO OFFER LGBTQ BUYERS—INCLUDG AFFORDABLE HOM
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” For her to bee the face of a r pany durg her retirement, says the Rabow Card -creator Pam Derrian, was a betiful, full-circle ’s gay-and-lbian–foced marketg mpaign was a h, and the pany’s efforts ntue today. Every year, Tim Bent says, the LGBTQ anizatns were the top five terms of rs was not the first pany to create advertisements for gay and lbian nsumers, but was the first major pany the Uned Stat to do so transparently and nsistently.
A number of amics cricized rporate Ameri’s embrace of the LGBTQ muny: While pani wanted the profs that me om marketg a gay sense of style, they foced on upper-class and whe gay inti—rarely gay people of lor or those unable to afford medil treatment for HIV/ acrdg to Derrian, that perspective unrtimat the telligence of LGBTQ nsumers.
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Moreover, Derrian, like many LGBTQ people who see a pany pchg to the gay market, vetted firms terted sponsorg the Rabow Card by lookg to the polici they had for their employe, like benefs for same-sex partners. When Ford created gay-iendly ads, revised s polici for s more than 100, 000 a sense, all Suba did was notice a group of ctomers who often felt unwele and visible, and create ads for them. AbstractIn this chapter, we look at the reprentatns of masculy gay-iendly prted adverts and mercials, focg on the tensns between marketg and soc-polil disurs that occur wh them.