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:
- GAY BURGER SAYS ‘SORRY, GAY’
- BURGER KG DEBUTS GAY PRI WHOPPER
- BURGER KG, DAVID HAVE PRI THEIR NEW GAY WHOPPER
- UNWRAPPG BURGER KG’S WHOPPER OF A GAY MARKETG PLOY
- GOOFY AHH BURGER KG ADBURGER KGMAR. 9, 20231 VIEWER1 CONTRIBUTORGOOFY AHH BURGER KG AD LYRICS[VERSE 1]GROOMG MORS, WHOPPER WHOPPERPENIS, CUM, BALLSACK, WHOPPERTAST LIKE SH, SUCK MY DICKI HAVE CHILDREN MY BASEMENT[VERSE 2]LETTUCE, SEMEN, SOME MORE SEMENI BANG YOUR MOMYOU HAVE NO FATHERI DIPPED MY BALLS THE WHOPPERI THK I'M GAY[REA]BE GAYHAVE YOUR WAY[OUTRO]YOU LEEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
- BURGER KG SELLS GAY PRI WHOPPER
- THE 50 GAYT ADS EVER
- SHJIRO ATAE OUT AS GAY AS JAPAN FAC PRSURE TO PASS PRO-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN
GAY BURGER SAYS ‘SORRY, GAY’
How gay do this Whopper look to you? See, that was a trick qutn: packagg asi, looks and tast exactly like every other Whopper. On that pot, here’s the spot promotg om DAVID, which premiered today: This ti que nicely to the brand’s new (ntent) “Be Your Way” tagle… If the mpaign looks like a b of a ... * be gay whopper ad *
“As a gay person, this is the funnit thg I have ever seen and I don’t thk I’ll ever stop lghg, ” unarnium said on Monday. In a 2018 terview wh a lol Atlanta TV statn, Chick-fil-A chairman and former CEO Dan Cathy said he did not support gay marriage, but was not anti-gay.
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BURGER KG DEBUTS GAY PRI WHOPPER
This year's Gay Pri ftivi San Francis were surely as fabulo as ever, and Burger Kg jumped at the chance to make s own statement about equaly wh the Proud Whopper. * be gay whopper ad *
Now, the agency behd the ms, Jung von Matt Don, has said ’s sorry for makg you wonr if a fast-food cha unrstands gay sex.
BURGER KG, DAVID HAVE PRI THEIR NEW GAY WHOPPER
Burger Kg released the Proud Whopper, an LGBT-iendly versn of s inic burger. It's the latt brand to urt lbian and gay nsumers. * be gay whopper ad *
Gay Burger Says ‘Sorry, Gay’. One, hilarly, qutns whether “gay people even eat fast food. ” In the fast food world, the Proud Whopper mpaign puts Burger Kg stark ntrast to Chick-fil-A, which is still tryg to move past anti-same-sex marriage ments ma by CEO Dan Cathy, promptg gay upl to stage “kiss-” protts 2012.
The ad agency that ma Burger Kg’s same-bun “Pri Whopper” promotn, which allows you to get your burger wh eher two top buns or two bottom buns, was forced to formally apologize for offendg the LGBTQ muny as crics felt they “revealed a fundamental misunrstandg about how gay sex works. ” “Top” and “bottom” generally refer to sexual posns, so featurg two “tops” or two “bottoms” on a gay burger is offensive and ignorant bee ’s nsistent wh an actual gay sexual relatnship, where there is both a “top” and a “bottom. Burger Kg Atria ma a burger to celebrate pri month that's eher two tops or two bottoms, but much like beg a gay relatnship, is really helpful to have one top and one bottom.
Another tweeted, “I’m jt obssed wh the same-bun Pri Whopper promo bee straight people saw and were like “oh ok ’s like two boys and two girls I gus” and gay people saw and were like “??? If gay men wanted to make this joke themselv, might be another story. Are the two bottom buns gay men?
UNWRAPPG BURGER KG’S WHOPPER OF A GAY MARKETG PLOY
* be gay whopper ad *
How gay do this Whopper look to you? San Francis is gay?
” Jt so, an asexual person or a gay person is the same on the si as a straight person; we’re all blood, guts, and bon wh sews holdg all together. You n jt see old ad-men Burger Kg HQ sayg to himself, “Hmm, beg gay is now?
The whole advertisg world is gog gay—om Target to Chevrolet.
GOOFY AHH BURGER KG ADBURGER KGMAR. 9, 20231 VIEWER1 CONTRIBUTORGOOFY AHH BURGER KG AD LYRICS[VERSE 1]GROOMG MORS, WHOPPER WHOPPERPENIS, CUM, BALLSACK, WHOPPERTAST LIKE SH, SUCK MY DICKI HAVE CHILDREN MY BASEMENT[VERSE 2]LETTUCE, SEMEN, SOME MORE SEMENI BANG YOUR MOMYOU HAVE NO FATHERI DIPPED MY BALLS THE WHOPPERI THK I'M GAY[REA]BE GAYHAVE YOUR WAY[OUTRO]YOU LEEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
That’s right—appealg to mory muni is what rporatns should do orr to make sure they don’t miss out on those sweet gay dollars. It’s transparently what advertisg has always been about, but an era which high-profile ad mpaigns like the Cheers spot featurg a multiracial fay have been treated as a self-explanatory social good, the discerng gay nsumer will hopefully not be too swayed by ads that are meant jt to sh on mographic inty.
BURGER KG SELLS GAY PRI WHOPPER
“Look how progrsive the world is beg, ” we say as we watch a gay uple open a Proud Whopper on YouTube.
THE 50 GAYT ADS EVER
But who giv a rat’s rriere, society is saved bee gay upl are mercials and there’s a gay-iendly whopper. “Gay’s are safe enough to advertise to, ” “Women lack nfince and we n explo that, ” etc.
The cha’s CEO Dan Cathy is known for havg strong Christian beliefs, anti-same-sex marriage and has a fay history of donatg to anti-gay celebrate LGBTQ pri, TODAY is sharg this muny’s history, pa, joy and what’s next for the movement. This year's Gay Pri ftivi San Francis were surely as fabulo as ever, and Burger Kg jumped at the chance to make s own statement about equaly wh the Proud Whopper.
SHJIRO ATAE OUT AS GAY AS JAPAN FAC PRSURE TO PASS PRO-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN
[Verse 1]Groomg mors, whopper whopperPenis, cum, ballsack, whopperTast like sh, suck my dickI have children my basement[Verse 2]Lettuce, semen, some more semenI bang your momYou have no fatherI dipped my balls the whopperI thk I'm gay[Rea]Be gayHave your way[Outro]You leHow to Format Lyrics:Type out all lyrics, even repeatg song parts like the chosLyrics should be broken down to dividual lUse sectn hears above different song parts like [Verse], [Chos], alics (<i>lyric</i>) and bold (<b>lyric</b>) to distguish between different volists the same song partIf you don’t unrstand a lyric, e [? ”The marketg mpaign is only the latt effort by some of the natn’s largt nsumer brands, cludg Co-Cola, Banana Republic, Allstate Insurance, Marrtt and Chevrolet, to urt lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr ctomers through advertisg that acknowledg the LGBT muny or shows support for issu such as same-sex marriage. “They ma a cisn to nnect to the gay muny a way that no other pany their tegory or dtry has done.