Commercial seemed to suggt that receivg news that your child is gay was parable to receivg a bullet to the heart
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- 'UH DAD, I'M GAY': UNILEVER DISTANC SELF OM ‘HOMOPHOBIC’ FLORA ADVERT
- FLORA MARGARE'S ANTI-GAY AD SPARKS CONTROVERSY, PARENT COMPANY UNILEVER SPEAKS OUT
- UNILEVER REMOV FLORA’S ‘DAD I’M GAY’ AD, SAYS DIDN’T APPROVE
'UH DAD, I'M GAY': UNILEVER DISTANC SELF OM ‘HOMOPHOBIC’ FLORA ADVERT
* uh dad i'm gay flora ad *
For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsAnglo-Dutch pany Unilever have whdrawn a Flora margare advert South Ai after was nmned as advert seemed to suggt that receivg the news that your child is gay was parable to receivg a bullet to the heart. Imposed on a pk background the mercial featured a bullet wh the words “Uhh Dad I’m Gay” flyg towards a heart ma of and Partners, an advertisg agency based Johannburg are the pany rponsible for the sign of the advert, though was Unilever, the firm that owns Flora that was cricized for the pany’s twter feed apologised for the mpaign, sayg:“This advert was prepared by an external agency South Ai and was not approved by anyone at Unilever. Stonewall, a UK-based gay rights pany who had earlier scribed the advert as “offensive and napropriate”, said was pleased by the pany’s cisn to whdraw .
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FLORA MARGARE'S ANTI-GAY AD SPARKS CONTROVERSY, PARENT COMPANY UNILEVER SPEAKS OUT
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Unilever, which owns Flora, was acced of homophobia.
Eebi McKaiser, an openly gay thor and rad host, tweeted: "Apparently #flora hat me. Unilever is proud of the support that our brands have given to LGBT [lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr] people, cludg our recent mpaign for Ben & Jerry's on equal marriage.
"Last month Ben & Jerry's, a Unilever-owned ice-cream brand, me out support of gay marriage Atralia, renamg s Cookie Dough flavour "I Dough, I Dough" Flora mercial was signed by the Johannburg branch of ternatnal advertisg firm Lowe and Partners, which said was "very sorry".
UNILEVER REMOV FLORA’S ‘DAD I’M GAY’ AD, SAYS DIDN’T APPROVE
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Stonewall, a gay rights group based the UK, nmned the Flora ad as "offensive and appropriate" and weled s whdrawal. "Perhaps Flora should have a chat wh their Unilever lleagu, Ben & Jerry's, about how bt to produce gay iendly advertisg f for the 21st century, " 2006 South Ai beme the fifth untry the world, and the first Ai, to allow legal marriag between same-sex upl.
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