Forever 21 Directly Ripped-off a Queer Nonprof / Lol Gay

Contents:

• FOREVER 21 DIRECTLY RIPPED-OFF A QUEER NONPROF / LOL GAY ARTIST STANDS OUTSI FOREVER 21 PROTTG THE COMPANY’S EXPLOATN DURG A PANMIC
• GAY PRI
• GAY PRI CALENDAR

FOREVER 21 DIRECTLY RIPPED-OFF A QUEER NONPROF / LOL GAY ARTIST STANDS OUTSI FOREVER 21 PROTTG THE COMPANY’S EXPLOATN DURG A PANMIC

The creative featur notable nam such as pneerg trans nway mol, Connie Flemg; founr of Born Perfect Foundatn, dited to fightg to end gay nversn therapy, Mathew Shurka; former InStyle EIC, wrer, and founr of ABBAPAPA, a parentg newsletter,  Ariel Foxman and his hband, tor Brandon Cart-Hernanz; fashn signer, creative director, and food enthiast, Peter Som; artist, activist and tor, Bradley Miller; chef and thor, Angela Dimayuga. GAY TIMES GT133 TikTok llective reterpret Calv Kle's #mylvs mpaign their image.

GAY PRI

GAY TIMES / Calv Kle / Man Hill-Murphy. Acrdg to GAY TIMES analysis (g a batn IPSOS and UN Populatn data) ’s a group predicted to h 1 billn globally by 2050, wh Gallup’s 2022 study revealg 7.

Here, Tag Warner, CEO of GAY TIMES – a magaze and now media group wh a powerful brand advisory arm nourished by a soarg social media prence and a 4. Redrsg a 2016-iated brilliantly subversive but also highly divisive mpaign where fully lored s famo rabow-lored packagg to honor the ‘most important rabow’ (ntroversial bee some perceived the all-whe sign as promotg the racist whe pri movement) for 2021 partnered wh GAY TIMES and LGBTQ+ helple Swchboard to lorize black-and-whe archive photos om Pri celebratns of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Sktl partnership wh GAY TIMES & LGBTQ+ helple Swchboard volved relorizg archive...

Sktl / GAY TIMES / Swchboard. Warner referenc GAY TIMES’ ‘platformg’ iative wh Apple.

GAY PRI CALENDAR

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Servicg this, last year GAY TIMES partnered wh Reebok on the Your Hometown mpaign, centerg the stori of LGBTQ+ teenagers Northern Brish ci. Documentary shorts, stills and quot featured across Gay Tim’ portfol, on Reebok and (footwear retailer) Schuh’s social media platforms, and activatns Schuh flagships.

In one an H&M visual manager reunts walkg on his father abg his mother for raisg a gay son, then nontg him. “Sport is a fascatg place bee statistilly LGBTQ+ people tend to be more unf – fuelled by the way profsnal sports is a very heteronormative terra; nsir the environment that exists that means there are currently no openly Gay profsnal footballers the UK, and what that means to LGBTQ+ nsumers.

Bankg too, is ripe for an update (as an dtry wh servic predomantly ground heterosexual fay-centered liftyl) and mental health, another space where LGBTQ+ behavrs tend to differ; GAY TIMES is also early discsns about a project wh Anglo-Amerin mdfulns app, Headspace. For 2021 was reterpreted aga as #ProudInMyCalvs featurg artists cludg rerd producers Ar and Honey Dijon celebratg fg moments the queer and trans journey, followed by GAY TIMES own story-sharg via s newly formed GT133 group of TikTok-based ntent creators (a micro llective who rpond to topil stori at speed).

GAY TIMES / Calv Kle. ” Warner reveals that GAY TIMES is currently discsg a partnership regardg this foc wh a datg app (tails to be revealed later this) anchored fdg love rather than hook-ups.

GAY TIMES Future?

A very different creature to the pre-Warner era where the dience was domated by whe, gay, fortysomethg men ( now boasts an equal genr spl and a broad trans-generatnal mix, om tweens to those their 60s and 70s) Warner reveals GAY TIMES is planng to build on s transn om pure publisher-to-brand builr by beg a full “cultural platform verg rmatn, products and servic. ”Tag Warner, pneerg CEO of GAY TIMESGAY TIMES (photography by Man Hill-Murphy / stylg by Solly Warner / make-up by David Smero).

Brands want you to thk they’re to Pri It’s that time of year aga when so many brands want to be your gay bt iend.

Many of the world’s largt fashn brands—om Christian Dr and Calv Kle to Yv Sat Lrent and Alexanr McQueen—are named after the gay men who found them. Alternative ia: return to Pri’s radilly creative roots A iend recently texted me a screenshot of a product they saw on Amazon: “The first gay Pri was a rt” read the slogan on the £13.