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Contents:

• IS THE FORD 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK REAL?
• AMID THE BUD LIGHT-DYLAN MULVANEY BACKLASH, FORD’S ‘VERY GAY’ TCKS HAVE RURFACED
• WATCH: FORD HAS ROLLED OUT AN LGBT ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ TCK
• IN RPONSE TO A HATEFUL COMMENT, FORD ROLLS OUT ‘THE VERY GAY RAPTOR’
• FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ SET TO REFE ‘TOUGH’ AT GOODWOOD
• FORD ROLLS OUT 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC TROLL
• FORD RETRODUC ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ FOR GAY PRI MONTH, MOCKED UNMERCIFULLY
• CONSERVATIV ARE GOG AFTER FORD’S VERY OLD, VERY GAY RAPTOR
• FORD ACTUALLY BUILT A 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' RPONSE TO AN TER TROLL
• FACT CHECK: HAS FORD ROLLED OUT AN LGBT 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK?
• REPORT: FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ A RPONSE TO A GAY SLUR

IS THE FORD 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK REAL?

Ford created a tck lled the "Very Gay Raptor. ContextThe "Very Gay Raptor" is a real tck created by Ford 2021. The pany reportedly created the r rponse to a social media post that referred to the "Performance Blue" lor optn on Ranger Raptors as "very gay.

In May 2023, claims began to spread onle that Ford had buted a new tck lled the "Very Gay Raptor, " a vehicle pated gold dt and rabow graphics.

AMID THE BUD LIGHT-DYLAN MULVANEY BACKLASH, FORD’S ‘VERY GAY’ TCKS HAVE RURFACED

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The "Very Gay Raptor" is real, but 's not new. It began as an attempt by our team Europe to turn a negative to a posive wh -kd rponse to a social ment 2021 assertg that a lor of the then-new Ranger Raptor tck was 'very gay' – somethg which offend lleagu and ctomers.

In September 2021, ABC 10 News reported that Ford of Germany had created the r rponse to a social media post that referred to the "Performance Blue" lor optn on Ranger Raptors as "very gay.

WATCH: FORD HAS ROLLED OUT AN LGBT ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ TCK

On June 21, 2022, nearly a year later, Ford News Europe posted a vio to s YouTube page tled, "Ford's Very Gay Raptor Ref 'Tough' for a New Generatn.

IN RPONSE TO A HATEFUL COMMENT, FORD ROLLS OUT ‘THE VERY GAY RAPTOR’

Ford lled out a homophobic rponse to a Ranger Raptor vio last year by creatg the real-life "Very Gay Raptor.

In a 2022 prs release about the tck, Ford said the vio was meant to tease the appearance of the "Very Gay Raptor" as well as the Next-Gen Ranger Raptor at the Goodwood Ftival of Speed, an annual U.

Ford's Very Gay Raptor Ref 'Tough' for a New Generatn.,. "FORD'S 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' SET TO REDEFINE 'TOUGH' AT GOODWOOD.

FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ SET TO REFE ‘TOUGH’ AT GOODWOOD

"Fact or Fictn: Ford Built a 'Very Gay' Raptor? 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. 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:.

FORD ROLLS OUT 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC TROLL

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.'”.

“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.

FORD RETRODUC ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ FOR GAY PRI MONTH, MOCKED UNMERCIFULLY

‘Very Gay’ was a pliment, right? ✨? #VeryGayRaptor /vOYJfwHANH. 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.

CONSERVATIV ARE GOG AFTER FORD’S VERY OLD, VERY GAY RAPTOR

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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. 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.

FORD ACTUALLY BUILT A 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' RPONSE TO AN TER TROLL

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. Ford’s iative to build the Very Gay Raptor was prompted by what seemed to be a homophobic rponse to their prev versn of a blue Ranger Raptor.

The menter wrote that the r was ol, but the blue lor of the vehicle was “very gay”. However, they took the homophobic jab as a pliment and took a remendatn om another person who asked the pany to pat the Raptor black and requted, they built the Very Gay Raptor wh a gold body and a rabow livery to celebrate their 25 years of LGBTQ+ advocy across Europe. The Ford Raptor is very gay.

FACT CHECK: HAS FORD ROLLED OUT AN LGBT 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK?

That’s not a middle school joke, ’s an actual vehicle offered by The Ford Motor Company, which created a special edn “very gay” versn of s Raptor pick-up tck two years ago, plete wh a rabow pat job. Yet nobody even noticed until recently — which sort of mak the whole thg a lot more May 18, Robby Starbuck tweeted, “Did you know that Ford has a tck they ll their ‘Very Gay Raptor’?

REPORT: FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ A RPONSE TO A GAY SLUR

” Did you know that Ford has a tck they ll their "Very Gay Raptor"? Me when the Ford ms guy slis to the DMs cryg that we told the world about their “Very Gay Raptor”… — Raheem. (@RaheemKassam) May 20, 2023While the very gay tck has gaed new promence, or famy pendg on your persuasn, has actually been out of the closet for some time, and Ford Europe was que proud of s Very Gay Raptor (VGR).

“Created 2021, ‘Very Gay Raptor’ was born rponse to a negative ment on social media, wh Ford renrg s most badass nameplate sparklg gold adorned wh rabow graphics, ” a Ford Europe prs release said. ”Somewhere along the le, an tersex dividual or an “ally” felt that dividuals born wh an extremely rare ndn where they have a batn of both male and female parts weren’t reprented on the, the flag has now been updated to clu tersex as seen here, shared by the Uned Stat Secretary of State Antony Blken jt this past Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia, and Transphobia we ll for an end to harmful nversn therapy practic, cludg those that attempt to change a person’s sexual orientatn, genr inty or exprsn, or sex characteristics. Individuals who supported gay marriage ls than 10 years ago, but don’t support radil genr iology are labeled bigots.

The Performance Blue Ford F-150 Raptor that spired the ‘Very Gay Raptor.