Reprentg Fifty Shas of Gay the LGBTQ+ Marketplace

Contents:

• GALLERY: IO TILLETT WRIGHT EXAM THE 50+ SHAS OF GAY
• FIFTY SHAS OF GAY
• REPRENTG FIFTY SHAS OF GAY THE LGBTQ+ MARKETPLACE
• FIFTY SHAS OF GAY
• C4 ANNOUNC NEW SEASON, 50 SHAS OF GAY

GALLERY: IO TILLETT WRIGHT EXAM THE 50+ SHAS OF GAY

IO Tillett Wright: Fifty shas of gay. As she reveals today’s bold talk, while marriage was far om her md 2008 when California’s Proposn 8 sparked a natnal bate over gay marriage, the nversatn still stck her like a punch. Tillett Wright had an ia: uld she photographilly troduce people agast the ia of gay marriage to the vast number of people the Uned State who nsir themselv somewhere along the LBGTQ spectm?

Jodi’s fay disowned her when they found out she was gay. But on his release form he put down “100% GAY”, and we all had to eat our stereotyp. Brian tght me so much about how stereotyp of gay men as effemate are a bunch of naive hogwash.

They pulled me asi and told me how important was that people know you n have a strong relatnship wh God, and still be gay. I thought that took tremendo urage, not only to be openly gay a state like Tennsee, but to take on the relig battle as well.

FIFTY SHAS OF GAY

Chip was the only skateboarr who had ever e to be photographed, which kicked off a really tertg discsn about homophobia wh the macho world of skateboardg, and how we uld all help to rce .

Before meetg him, and many like him, I had some prenceived, narrow view of what gay people looked like, (pecially men) — even if was a broad view by most standards.

3, 184, 548 views | iO Tillett Wright | TEDxWomen 2012 • December 2012iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2, 000 people who nsir themselv somewhere on the LGBTQ spectm -- and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are?

REPRENTG FIFTY SHAS OF GAY THE LGBTQ+ MARKETPLACE

Most people, turns out, nsir themselv to exist the gray areas of sexualy, not 100% gay or straight. IO Tillett Wright has photographed 2, 000 people who nsir themselv somewhere on the LGBTQ spectm -- and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are? 6% of Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer, acrdg to a new Gallup report.

FIFTY SHAS OF GAY

Sce the dawn of the polilly-motivated “Dream Market” the 1990s, whe, affluent, gay mal uld expect to see themselv gay prt magaz and onle portals, natnal ad mpaigns the media, and, creasgly, mastream media, particularly televisn and news media, while advertisers left the rt of the LGBTQ+ populatn, cludg all people of lor, out the ld. The Ls, Bs, Ts, and Qs were expected to see themselv reprented by advertisg to whe gay mal and be thankful for the visibily. Alternately, marketers were unapologetilly pursug the gay male dollar and had ltle regard for the rt.

C4 ANNOUNC NEW SEASON, 50 SHAS OF GAY

Clarify advocy and reprentatn In recent years, some advertisers have shifted away om “reprentg” all LGBTQ+ nsumers wh imag of gay mal towards advertisg that highlights the stggl of transgenr dividuals. For s, the advertisg dtry has neglected female members of the LGBTQ+ populatn wh a bias towards gay mal; this even though femal are more likely than mal to intify as LGBTQ+.

Dpe the fact that a greater number of lbian upl have children than do gay men, gay men actually tend to be more equently portrayed wh fai pared to lbian upl. Acrdg to a recent Ipsos report, among the progrsg generatns, more LGBTQ+ people are choosg to intify as “fluid” rather than “non-fluid” (meang gay or lbian) as members of Gen-Z are far more likely than prev generatns to be plurisexual or attracted to more than one sex. Early rearch the field datg back to Frd’s Inversn Theory 1910 scribed gay men and lbians as “sexual verts”—implyg that homosexualy was some sense the reversal of “normal” sex.

Gay mal and lbians tend to hold no ls of their own-sex tras than do heterosexuals.