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Contents:

• HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON
• THIS AD IS BEG LLED THE “GAYT COMMERCIAL OF 2021”
• THE TOP 10 GAY-THEMED COMMERCIALS THAT SHOULD BE CELEBRATED
• IS THERE A GAY COUPLE THAT INSURANCE AD?
• IKEA’S “DG ROOM” FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY COUPLE COMMERCIAL
• WELLS FARGO: AD WH GAY COUPLE REFLECTS 'DEMOGRAPHIC REALY'
• WELLS FARGO'S GAY UPLE AD SPARKS EVANGELIST PROTT

HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON

Inially, that seemed like an all-too faiar slap the face for gay Amerins, perhaps even a step back for their llective social standg. Televisn ads aren’t as important the digal marketg age as they were a generatn ago, but some ways they reprent a fal ontier of mastream cultural acceptance for gay equaly, acrdg to several marketg experts who specialize helpg major rporatns sell products to the gay muny.

“It’s not about gay people as much as is ntemporary nsumers, ” Bob Weck, print of the LGBTQ marketg and munitns nsultg firm Weck Communitns, told CNN Bs. … Gay and LGBTQ nsumers, Gen Z and Millennials, their attus are so different about the ordars of same sex marriage today.

AFA and s subsidiary, One Milln Moms, have been nstant fo to gay and lbian tolerance Amerin culture.

THIS AD IS BEG LLED THE “GAYT COMMERCIAL OF 2021”

“Fay entertament is not the outlet which to be polilly rrect by forcg tolerance and acceptance of homosexualy – a sful liftyle that Scripture clearly ems as wrong. Today, the world’s biggt advertisers primarily e targeted web ads as a means to market products and servic to gay Amerins a hyper-foced way. “That’s where we saw this huge sh of advertisg wh the to pani and bankg and travel pani, ” Mark Elrk, CEO of the Gay Ad Network, told CNN Bs.

Elrk’s firm has helped some of the world’s largt rporatns velop polici and marketg strategi for gay dienc for the last 25 years, mostly onle and on social media.

“Wh TV, if you wanted to n a mercial wh LGBTQ characters, you were nng on a work that wasn’t gay targeted.

THE TOP 10 GAY-THEMED COMMERCIALS THAT SHOULD BE CELEBRATED

Zola Chief Marketg Officer Mike Chi said The Hallmark Channel didn’t take issue wh Zola 2017 when the onle weddg registry and planng pany sent the work a prev ad featurg a gay uple. That mercial showsed ttimonials om several heterosexual newlyweds and one gay uple talkg about their posive experienc g Zola. Weck, the LGBTQ market expert, has seen the spendg power of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr Amerins uptick slightly om about $790 ln 2012 to more than $800 ln to date by his own timat.

From 2012 to 2017, the percentage of Amerins who intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr also rose a b om 3. Heterosexual Milliennials’ overall fort beg around gay and lbian dividuals dropped om 53% 2017 to 45% 2018, acrdg to the latt rults of the annual Acceleratg Acceptance report missned by GLAAD and rried out by Harris Insights & Analytics. But the largt generatn of young adults is still far more acceptg of gay marriage than their precsors.

A Pew Rearch poll released May showed 74% of Millennials support gay marriage 2019 pared to 58% of Generatn Xers and 51% of baby boomers.

IS THERE A GAY COUPLE THAT INSURANCE AD?

A new ad om CarGus is beg lled "the gayt mercial of 2021"Photo: Screenshot. An ad for the CarGus webse is beg lled “the gayt mercial of 2021” onle and ’s not hard to see why. Publicly, Warren — a clil psychologist, semary profsor and vout Christian — claimed that was bee he had no expertise when me to gay datg.

IKEA’S “DG ROOM” FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY COUPLE COMMERCIAL

In a 2013 terview wh CNBC, he lamented that his pany was forced to “put up a same-sex se” and said gay marriage “has really damaged our pany.

WELLS FARGO: AD WH GAY COUPLE REFLECTS 'DEMOGRAPHIC REALY'

”“We lerally had to hire guards to protect our liv, bee the people were so hurt and angry wh , ” he said at the time, bee “Christian people” felt the pany’s gay datg se was “a vlatn to scripture. ”Warren also suggted to CNBC that eHarmony vt $10 ln to “figure out” homosexualy, which he lled “at the very bt … a paful way for a lot of people to have to live.

”“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. 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.

WELLS FARGO'S GAY UPLE AD SPARKS EVANGELIST PROTT

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.

A new holiday-themed mercial om Rz crackers featur a gay uple as part of a msage about the bety of chosen fai. Released this week, "Where There's Love, There's Fay" opens wh a seri of vigt of people yearng for nnectn — a young gay man textg his mother to ask “Can we talk?, " a child stayg a homels shelter over Christmas, and a grandmother unable to celebrate the holidays wh her the ad ntu, a person wh a beard appli lipstick before welg the young gay man om the openg vigte to a ftive gatherg wh other LGBTQ partygoers. Produced by Virgia-based advertisg firm The Mart Agency, the spot is clive s stg, as well — featurg two gay men of lor and transgenr and nonbary extras.