Apparently, we as a society are so wrapped up the ia of how "gay" objects, clothg styl, and activi are that we n't even leave tomobil out of ! Th, the guys at Car Talk, those te terers of r nversatn, have e up wh the: lists of the top 10 gay and lbian rs. Let's take a look,…
Contents:
- THE ARE THE TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN CARS
- IS ELIE SAAB GAY
- A WELE MAT FOR GAY CTOMERS
- GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
- MANLY SEA EAGL ACH APOLOGIS FOR HANDLG OF GAY PRI JERSEYS AS SEVEN REFE TO PLAY
- SAAB GAY MOTORSPORTS TEAM?
THE ARE THE TOP 10 GAY AND LBIAN CARS
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Apparently, we as a society are so wrapped up the ia of how "gay" objects, clothg styl, and activi are that we n't even leave tomobil out of ! Th, the guys at Car Talk, those te terers of r nversatn, have e up wh the: lists of the top 10 gay and lbian rs.
‘Surf Girls Hawai’i’ is the Real-Life ‘Blue Csh’ We’ve Waed 21 Years ForOffEnglishCar Talk took a pletely non-scientific poll and queried their lbian and gay listeners, and apparently some straight and bisexual people, too, askg for nomatns of the bt queer vehicl. Nomatns om gays, om lbians, om borg heterosexuals like ... Good for seemg utterly pretent and important the area of At's Wt Camp, where I lived wedged between sorory, so how about the Top 10 Gay Cars?
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IS ELIE SAAB GAY
Jaguar, Volkswagen and Volvo beg advertisg gay publitns, jog three other tomakers, Saab, Saturn and Suba, specific marketg to gays; photo (M) * saab gay *
Is VW to gay men what Suba is to lbian women? has 3 children wh User ∙ 12y agoAdd your answer:Earn +20 ptsQ: Is elie Saab gayWre your answer... 17, 2001See the article s origal ntext om Augt 17, 2001, Sectn F, Page 1Buy ReprtsTimMache is an exclive benef for home livery and digal s of treatg gay nsumers as the visible mory they often were, tomakers are urtg them directly, often wh msag that wave the rabow banner of gay year, Jaguar, Volkswagen and Volvo began advertisg natnal gay publitns, jog three pani -- Saab, Saturn and Suba -- that had signed on earlier.
Carmakers are sponsorg gay events, awards and year, DaimlerChrysler, Ford and General Motors were sponsors of the annual show of the Lambda Car Club, a group of nearly 2, 000 gay llectors. For two years, Jaguar has sponsored media awards given by the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn. In June, Volvo provid rs for the Los Angel gay pri, whose rs have long sold well among gay men and lbians, has taken an creasgly proment role.
It sponsors the Los Angel gay pri ftival and events anized by an advocy group, the Human Rights Campaign. It was a foundg sponsor of the Rabow Card, an affy cred rd program -- -found by Marta Navratilova -- that has raised more than $1 ln for gay . ''We're clear that we support the health and civic-mdns of the gay and lbian muny, '' said Tim Bent, director of natnal marketg for Suba.
A WELE MAT FOR GAY CTOMERS
''Saab was the first to advertise the natnal gay prs, 1994. Last month, ran an ad Genre, a gay liftyle magaze, that showed a man's bare upper torso and an S60 sedan. ''Suba, which began gay-specific advertisg 1997, is probably the most visible, and darg.
''It says, 'We acknowledge you as a nsumer; this is the language that you speak, ' '' said John Nash, print of Moon Cy Productns, the San Francis pany that created the 1994, Suba intified gays as one of s five re groups of buyers. Nature typ -- and then gay men and lbians, '' Mr. Rearch also termed that the gay muny was a good market for Saturn, a G.
Natnal gay publitns offer prized mographics to advertisers.
GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
Rears also have a strong propensy to buy European rs, the survey, however visible many gay people have bee, tomakers face a marketg nundm. Pl, an advocy group for the pany's gay and lbian employe.
''Relatns between the dtry and many gay people warmed nsirably last year when the Detro tomakers began offerg employee benefs to same-sex partners, unr a jot agreement wh the Uned Automobile Workers. ''The regnn of gays and lbians as r nsumers is somethg that has been put on the radar screen of the Big Three pani by their employee rource groups, '' said Cdy Clardy of Ford Globe, a gay employee group.
MANLY SEA EAGL ACH APOLOGIS FOR HANDLG OF GAY PRI JERSEYS AS SEVEN REFE TO PLAY
''We also told Ford not to try and nsir direct marketg to gay and lbian nsumers until they had their ternal polici place.
You n the risk of beg seen as, 'You jt want to take our money but you don't re about your gay employe. ''Still, most pani do not advertise the gay prs. ''We don't do any specific targetg to the gay muny, '' said Karen Vonr Mlen, marketg and events munitns manager for BMW.
''They worry that reachg out to gays wh a particular mol n then affect the rt of the lp, '' a senr advertisg executive said, addg that the pani aimed their promotns where only gays were likely to see them. 24, 2001: An article the Automobil sectn last Friday about tomakers' efforts to reach gay nsumers misstated the lotn of Moon Cy Productns, an advertisg agency that created a Suba mpaign.
SAAB GAY MOTORSPORTS TEAM?
It is New York Cy, not San we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn F, Page 1 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: A Wele Mat for Gay Ctomers.