This week, the ACLU brought a case against a Utah School Board for restricting access to Our Mothers' House, a children's book about a family with two moms, after some parents complained about The Gay Agenda™
50+ years ago, when closets were deeper and words meant different things, the gay agenda in media was something quite different...
Copyranter posted this pic with the observation that Barbie appears to be hooking up with Ellen Degeneres.
It's actually supposed to be Ken in this colouring book, and the scenario is actually a movie premiere. The illustrator just seems to have Bieberized Ken for the little girl market.
Too bad. Since Ken went all lavender anyway, in the early '90s, Barbie might as well expand her horizons.
And it's not like homophobic parents should have any problems with a Sapphic Barbie. I've had a good 41 year run with heterosexuality, despite early exposure to Big Jim's very special friend, Jack.
George Takei, Star Trek's Mr. Sulu and human rights activist, has a message for Clint McCance, an Arkansas School Board member who made international headlines for spewing hate at gay students. (He later resigned.)
Takei makes his rant in context of YouTube's "It Gets Better" channel, in which celebrities and others are adding their words of support for gay youth and The Trevor Project.
My question is, how appropriate is it for an activist — gay or straight — to use the classic attack of "if you're so anti gay, you must be gay yourself"?
I'm never particularly surprised when a vocal homophobe is revealed as a self-loathing closeted hypocrite. But in these cases, suspected homosexuality seems like it is being used as an insult.
Regardless, the use of insulting language like "douchebag" is well deserved.
"The saga lurches forward: although USI pulled the billboards as promised, copies of the ad appeared in men's restrooms throughout Minneapolis in June. In response, as if to thumb his nose at the activism that provoked the billboards' removal--and to demonstrate his commitment to the failed campaign--USI Wireless' President, Joe Caldwell, appears in at least one version of the ad, pictured here at Park Avenue and 9th Street in downtown Minneapolis.
I'm hoping to persuade USI to make a meaningful contribution to the Women's Foundation of Minnesota or another organization that works to promote the safety and well-being of sex workers and to increase housing and educational opportunities for young people."
Change Marketing will return to daily blogging next Monday. Sorry for not announcing the hiatus in advance, but I didn't want to turn up on Please Rob Me...
A McDonald's ad is making a statement about gay acceptance. I repeat: a McDonald's ad.
Okay, it's McDonald's France. It's part of the "come as you are" campaign, which has included such bizarre ads as this one:
It's kind of a weird progression, in context. "We'll serve anyone... Sith Lords, gay teenagers, whatever." But that's obviously not the intended point. The campaign has just taken a more realist and human turn.
Will it work? The ad is all over the Internet this week, and is certain to cause discussion and controversy of various kinds.
The Telegraph points to one YouTube comment: “They could never show that in the states, or the Christian right would boycott the restaurant forever.”
Others believe the ad also makes a statement about gay NON-acceptance. As the Change.org Gay Rights Blog points out:
"If McDonald's is 'come as you are,' why doesn't the young man's father know his son is gay? Why is it the son doesn't tell him at that moment? Are you really who you are if you have to put up with heterosexual assumptions about you, and don't feel you can challenge them? I'm just saying ..."
Or maybe the spot is showing how a shared moment at MacDoo gave a son the opportunity to open up to his Dad (that's how I interpret it). Nonetheless, an interesting move by the fast food giant. Because gay people should feel welcome to fatten themselves up on Big Macs just like everyone else.
