“Very Gay Raptor”’ (VGR) and Next-Gen Ranger Raptor to appear at the Goodwood Ftival of Speed, reaffirmg Ford’s long-term mment to LGBTQ+ allyship
Contents:
- FACT CHECK: HAS FORD ROLLED OUT AN LGBT 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK?
- FORD RETRODUC ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ FOR GAY PRI MONTH, MOCKED UNMERCIFULLY
- FACT CHECK: HAS FORD ROLLED OUT AN LGBT 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK?
- REHOBOTH’S GALLERY 50 TO HOST SHOWS BY TWO GAY ARTISTS
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- FORD RAPTOR COMMERCIAL – “ALL IN” ON GAY PRI
- FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ SET TO REFE ‘TOUGH’ AT GOODWOOD
- FORD UNVEILED A 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO A HOMOPHOBIC COMMENTER
- REPORT: SWATCH GROUP SU COUNTRY THAT ALLEGEDLY SEIZED ITS GAY PRI WATCH
- FORD MOTOR COMPANY'S SUPPORT OF GAY AND LBIAN -TTH!
- NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
FACT CHECK: HAS FORD ROLLED OUT AN LGBT 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK?
Is the "Very Gay Raptor" a social media hoax or a real thg om Ford Motor Co.? Here's the unsettlg answer. * ford and gay pride *
A spokperson for Ford said an email to Rters, “The vio is a year old and was created and ed by the Ford team Europe for a specific purpose – to make somethg posive out of a negative onle ment that a lor of our new Ranger Raptor pickup was ‘very gay. Ford did not release a new “Very Gay Raptor” ad mpaign 2023; the onle vio dat to article was produced by the Rters Fact Check team. It looks like the Ford executiv who uld have stopped their brand om beg the “Bud Light of Tcks” had already done the ed a year ago, when they ran the “Very Gay Raptor” — y, that is s real name — at a major motorsports event.
The ad featur the Worlds Strongt Men to nvce you how tough the new “Very Gay Raptor” really is! The ad shared by London featur Rob Kearney, the first openly gay petor the World’s Strongt Man petn, talkg up the allyship he found the event.
FORD RETRODUC ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ FOR GAY PRI MONTH, MOCKED UNMERCIFULLY
Ford Motor Company ran an ad featurg gay pri lors which has h social media the US settg on fire wh lls for a boytt. * ford and gay pride *
Others also recently posted promotnal vios of the “Very Gay Raptor, ” a rabow flag-becked versn of the $56, 000-pl tw-turbo performance tck:. The only thg that’s wrong about the statements is that the “Very Gay Raptor” isn’t somethg new. “Ford will ntue monstratg s allyship wh the LGBTQ+ muny at the Goodwood Ftival of Speed this week, brgg ‘Very Gay Raptor’ and the Next-Gen Ranger Raptor along for the ri, ” Ford said a news release last June, clarg that the tck would “refe ‘tough.
FACT CHECK: HAS FORD ROLLED OUT AN LGBT 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK?
Is the "Very Gay Raptor" a social media hoax or a real thg om Ford Motor Co.? Here's the unsettlg answer. * ford and gay pride *
“Created 2021, ‘Very Gay Raptor’ was born rponse to a negative ment on social media, wh Ford renrg s most bada** nameplate sparklg gold adorned wh rabow graphics, ” the news release said. ‘Very Gay’ was a pliment, right?
✨? #VeryGayRaptor. Footage of the “Very Gay Raptor” also featur promently a rep of Ford’s numero petn rs and productn specials at Goodwood last year:.
Whereas prevly an ostentatly woke mpaign specifilly targetg nsumer products that are cidly unwoke would fly unr the radar for most people, the “Very Gay Raptor” sudnly seems like a “Very Bad Ia” — particularly for a pany stgglg other areas at prent that has to sell the Ford Ranger Raptor to a mostly male, generally nservative clientele that’s not nsirg a sendhand Nissan Leaf the Raptor’s stead. (Before Mulvaney), ’ll be cur to see what Ford do wh the “Very Gay Raptor” and what kd of publicy gets over the next few months. Advertisg, Automobile, Boytt, bs and pani, Culture, Homosexual Agenda, inty polics, LGBT, social media, Transgenr, Tweet, vio, wokens.
REHOBOTH’S GALLERY 50 TO HOST SHOWS BY TWO GAY ARTISTS
* ford and gay pride *
Ford Motor Company has stepped over an ad that actually me out Europe ten months ago featurg gay pri lors, jt now htg social media the Uned Stat, settg on fire wh lls to boytt the r pany which now has a fe Bud Light vibe. ” It shows a rabow-lored tck racg the mud tryg to portray as macho while phg the gay theme. If I was gay, this would make me straight.
The pany released a mpaign through Ford Europe that shows a Ford Raptor rated LGBT rabow lors and gold sparkl, speedg past s petn, wh ‘#verygayraptor ‘wrten on the wdshield. “Very Gay Raptor” was born rponse to a negative ment on social media, wh Ford renrg s well-known nameplate sparklg gold adorned wh rabow graphics.
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
An onle menter lled the new Ford Raptor Ranger "gay," so Ford created the #VeryGayRaptor time for Berl's Pri celebratns. * ford and gay pride *
– But that blue lor is very Gay!! Very Gay Raptor.
Ford rerated the blue tck wh gay pri rabows, rpondg, “‘Very gay’ was a pliment, right? The “Very Gay Raptor” ma s ial but at the Goodwood Ftival of Speed event near Chichter, UK, last June.
gay ford tck mem are top tier. Ford actually created a ‘Very Gay Raptor’ tck and ma a promo of ‘g out!
FORD RAPTOR COMMERCIAL – “ALL IN” ON GAY PRI
gay ford tck mem are the peak of edy you n’t nvce me otherwise. The very gay Ford Raptor, steppg out your addidas swimsu wh a buldge, and drkg a Bud Light ? Yee Yee.
FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ SET TO REFE ‘TOUGH’ AT GOODWOOD
Dpe not weighg on the Dylan Mulvaney-Bud Light ntroversy, Ford has ma their allyship well last summer, Ford lnched their ‘Very Gay Raptor’ (VGR) at the Goodwood Ftival of Speed.
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In 1996, Ford did somethg unheard of at any large-sle pany Germany: tablished an -hoe group for Gay, Lbian or Bisexual Employe – GLOBE.
FORD UNVEILED A 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO A HOMOPHOBIC COMMENTER
“Homophobia was wispread. 2010 – Ford of Germany sponsors the Gay Gam Cologne.
2015 – All-new Ford Mtang ws “Gay Car of the Year” Award Europe. She found the Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Faculty Staff Associatn 2009, which was later renamed the LGBTQ+ Faculty Associatn.
REPORT: SWATCH GROUP SU COUNTRY THAT ALLEGEDLY SEIZED ITS GAY PRI WATCH
Murray Archibald and Steve Elks found CAMP Rehoboth after heterosexual rints phed back agast the creasg promence of gay and lbian people Rehoboth and the two started the anizatn after the Rehoboth Homeowner Associatn loudly opposed the vibe the queer muny had created, potg to noise, traffic, and parkg as problems, CAMP Rehoboth wr s history. Image source, North Country Off Grid/Youtube/via RtersImage ptn, Photos shared on social at the time allegedly showed dozens of the hate group's members beg arrted near the pri eventFive members of a whe supremacist hate group nvicted of plottg to rt at a gay pri event will spend three days jail, a urt has men and dozens other members of the Patrt Front group were arrted last June after a rint spotted them wh masks and shields gettg to a were lled and found rt gear and a smoke grena the lorry was stopped near where the North Idaho Pri Alliance was holdg an event the cy of Cor d'Alene. “There’s no greater reward than dog for the ltle Black gay boy who has someone to look up to now bee we didn’t have those people to look up to, ” says Phipps, reuntg a movg past experience where a preteen boy lled the duo his hero after seeg them perform.
(Jason Armond / Los Angel Tim) (Jason Armond / Los Angel Tim) Through the Freaky Boiz’s high-energy live performanc and slick raps over stmentals sure to make you dance, they’re rvg their own lane hip-hop and treatg dienc to mic that highlights Black gay joy, datg adventur and wo and empowerg antiexploatn bops tailor-ma for the digal age like “Cash App. ”“They’re tryg to teach kids that beg gay is wrong and that’s phg 50 years backwards om the work of people who started the Pri para like Marsha P.
This isn’t the first time Ford has walked a fe le of beg “Ford tough” but also embracg their ner gayns.
FORD MOTOR COMPANY'S SUPPORT OF GAY AND LBIAN -TTH!
Coupled wh this gay Raptor mercial, what exactly is Ford sayg about tradnal male rol society and culture? *Exaggeratn upg* No gay people buy the big tcks! OK, maybe there is a soft, unllo hand-ful of gay men that drive pick-up tcks but not many.
Maybe Ford se the “tough” gay man (which is an obv oxymoron) as an untapped market. Maybe the real wners om this ad are pani like Nissan and Toyota… you know, the on who foc on tcks and not gayns. Out the wild wh the #Ford #NextGenRangerRaptor and #VeryGayRaptor who will be partnerg up at @fosgoodwood to Drive out Discrimatn the tomotive dtri.
Learn about the Very Gay Raptor on our #FordBlog ? #FOS — Ford News Europe (@FordNewsEurope) June 21, 2022 A prs release was posted to Ford’s webse last year about the tck seen the mercial, lled “Very Gay Raptor. Ford’s “Very Gay” Raptor adopted a gltery gold body adorned wh a wave of rabow nng om the ont si of the r to the back. The Pri-themed Raptor was rponse to a homophobic ment about a Ranger Raptor vio that was shared 2021.
NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
Conservativ react to Very Gay Raptor. Introducg the Very Gay Raptor was a follow-up to the “Tough Talks” vio seri prented by the pany featurg Gareth Thomas, a former Welsh Rugby player. Gareth is the first gby unn player who is openly gay.
In the vio seri, he spoke wh guts about fightg homophobia the tomotive world and shed light on the need of refg how one perceiv the notn of beg tough.