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.
Contents:
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- WHY HASN'T THERE BEEN A GAY ACTN HERO YET?
- THE 50 GAYT ADS EVER
- HASBRO LICENS GI JOE/ACTN MAN TOYS FOR AN EPIC GAY VILLAGE PEOPLE-STYLE TV AD
- YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS EPILLY GAY ACTN MAN COMMERCIAL
- THIS AD IS BEG LLED THE “GAYT COMMERCIAL OF 2021”
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay action man advert *
Homosexual acts are illegal Malaysia and punishable by f and up to 20 years prison. You are young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progrsive, ” he said addrsg the dience.
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
WHY HASN'T THERE BEEN A GAY ACTN HERO YET?
Gay characters have ma their way to mastream movi, but there's yet to be a lead gay actn hero. * gay action man advert *
Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.
LGBTQ sex lumnist Dan Savage noted that Earrg Magic Ken’s wardrobe rembled outfs seen at gay rav a few years prr (leave to Ken to be jt behd the tim). And to many who’d seen the doll, the rg around his neck rembled a certa sex toy popular among straight and gay men alike.
Even though Mattel nied that he was signed wh gay men md, he was one of the few mastream toys at the time that stck a chord wh LGBTQ nsumers. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.
THE 50 GAYT ADS EVER
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In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud.
The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.
The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.
HASBRO LICENS GI JOE/ACTN MAN TOYS FOR AN EPIC GAY VILLAGE PEOPLE-STYLE TV AD
The UK answer to GI Joe, Actn Man, is featured rockg out his blue unrwear to CeCe Peniston's 1990's gay anthem Fally a new mercial for webse MoneySupermarket. He is joed by his pals Actn Man Astront, Actn Man Cricketer, and Actn Man Polar Explorer as they throw down at what appears to be an * gay action man advert *
For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.
YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS EPILLY GAY ACTN MAN COMMERCIAL
“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.
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Why Hasn't There Been a Gay Actn Hero Yet? The fact that 2023 there is not a sgle actn movie wh a gay guy as a lead character is utterly ridiculo.
THIS AD IS BEG LLED THE “GAYT COMMERCIAL OF 2021”
While the plete absence of gay men actn films for the longt time is unrstandable, though disappotg, om a historil perspective, the perd for unrstandg end s ago. There’s no exce for such a arth of gay men across the actn genre the year 2023. The lack of gay actn stars through the '70s and '80s should e as no surprise, nsirg gay people were classified as havg a “psychiatric disorr” by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn om 1952-1973 (at which pot "gay" was downgrad to mere "sexual orientatn disturbance.