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.
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THE 50 GAYT ADS EVER
I recently disvered that Hulu, a pany offerg streamg of TV shows, movi and other vio ntent, is nng a homosexual-themed advertisement durg fay/kids programmg. Do the people at Hulu really thk the parents want their young kids exposed to a homosexual-themed ad?
Obvly, many bs today want to be what they nsir hip, and pani such as Hulu often have management and employe who are maly liberal and who have a skewed view of the world; addn, homosexuals are a mographic wh great disposable e, so they’re fely part of Nordstrom’s ctomer base. Th, even if you’re a pletely amoral marketg executive who worships the dollar, shouldn’t occur to you that a homosexual-themed ad durg tradnalist fay programmg is self-featg? In ntrast, homosexuals are two percent of the populatn.
But ’s guaranteed that a homosexual-themed ad will alienate people — pecially when played durg 55-year-old televisn shows. Update: do appear that, at approximately the time this piece was submted for publitn, Hulu pulled the homosexual-themed ad.