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Contents:
- WOULD BE "GAY" FOR A GUY TO DRIVE A HATCHBACK?
- WOULD BE "GAY" FOR A GUY TO DRIVE A HATCHBACK?
- WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
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WOULD BE "GAY" FOR A GUY TO DRIVE A HATCHBACK?
It was such an unual cisn—and such a succs—that helped ph gay and lbian advertisg om the g to the mastream.
Mastream movi and TV shows wh gay characters—like Will & Grace—were still a few years away, and few celebri were openly gay. When Ellen Degener beme a rare exceptn 1997, and her character the show Ellen me out as gay an episo of the s, many pani pulled their ads. ”At that time, gay-iendly advertisg was largely limed to the fashn and alhol dtri.
WOULD BE "GAY" FOR A GUY TO DRIVE A HATCHBACK?
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WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
You’d be known as a gay pany. ” In the 1990s, Poux worked at Mulryan/Nash, an agency that specialized the gay market.
“All the l of marketg went out the wdow at this fear” of marketg to gays and lbians, he says. Wrg The Huffgton Post, the reporter Ron Dicker ptured some of the cultural nfn that followed:When one Suba ad man … proposed the gay-targetg ads talks wh Japane executiv, the executiv hurriedly looked up “gay” their dictnari. While Bent, who is gay, didn’t reveal his sexual orientatn for fear of overshadowg the effort, he nohels rells holdg pany meetgs wh nam along the l of “Who Are Gays and Lbians?
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Suba of Ameri knew had to support s gay and lbian employe if wanted to appeal to lbian ctomers, so they schled a meetg wh a senr Japane executive to make the se for domtic-partnership benefs. ”By 1996, Suba ads created by Mulryan/Nash were appearg both gay publitns and mastream media.