NPR's Pla Money podst looks at how Suba began marketg to the gay and lbian muny, and how helped turn around the pany the '90s.
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HOW SUBA SAVED SELF BY MARKETG TO THE GAY MUNY
For nearly 30 years, Suba has supported the LGBTQ+ muny: om our long-term relatnship wh PFLAG and s life-changg programs natnwi, to supportg gay and lbian film ftivals and pri paras, to beg the first U. 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.
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GAY-FRIENDLY CARS: IS SUBA NUMBER ONE?
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.