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Friday, October 17

Ellen Buys TV Time To Fight For Gay Nups

Ellen's tearing up the activist scene. The lesbian funny lady this week released a video urging voters to vote "no" on California's Proposition 8, which - as you should know by now - would overturn gay marriage in the Golden State. The commercial is all well and good, but Ms. DeGeneres...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-17-2008
Thursday, October 16

Pepperdine Prez Lashes Out At Anti-Gay Prop 8 Propaganda

It's the intellectual versus the traditionalists! Pepperdine University president Andrew K. Benton bit back at the Yes on 8 campaign this week after the activists invoked his institution's name in an incendiary ad. CONTINUED » Permalink | post a comment | Add to del.icio.us |...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-16-2008
Wednesday, October 08

Ad Council Fights "So Gay"

Bringing homophobia to the mainstream, the Advertising Council and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network will today launch a campaign against "That's so gay." It's the first time the council has used its public service announcements to help out the homos. CONTINUED » Permalink...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-08-2008
Tuesday, September 09

Cover Girl!

Ellen DeGeneres has finally made it! The hilarious lesbian recently inked a deal to become Cover Girl's next spokeswoman, a slot typically filled by Amazonian super models and starlets. DeGeneres shoots the campaign this week and "sources" say she's getting a cool $1 million for the...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 09-09-2008
Thursday, August 07

L-Word Storylines To Get Commercial

Ilene Chaiken’s one clever lesbian! The L-Word writer and creator convinced Showtime, which doesn’t air commercials, to let her write products into the lady drama’s storylines. And the move may bring in serious bank: Those with knowledge of the matter say that for $300,000, consumer...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 08-07-2008
Tuesday, August 05

SC Tourism Gave "So Gay" PR-Related Green Light

Boy, this is the scandal that won’t die! Recently released emails reveal that South Carolina’s Tourism honcho, Chad Prosser, explicitly requested the controversial “So Gay” adverts stay up in London. Once the scandal broke, however, Prosser and his colleagues told the press they...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 08-05-2008
Monday, August 04

Emails Detail "So Gay" Scandal

Finally - some closure in South Carolina’s “So Gay” advert scandal. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, we all now have an inside view as to what went down after the State’s tourism officials first heard of the controversial ad, which had been designed and distributed in...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 08-04-2008
Monday, July 28

Nike Yanking "Anti-Gay" Ads

Nike’s done good. The athletics company received queer jeers last week after unveiling the ad above, which many took as a slight to the gays - and, possibly, Larry Craig. Fearing a lavender backlash, Nike has now decided to yank the ads: [Nike] has pulled some advertisements that appeared to send...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 07-28-2008
Thursday, July 24

Well-Deserved Self-Congratulations.

HRC press release title: “After Discussions with Human Rights Campaign, Mars Inc. Pulls Controversial Ad.” That would be the instantly infamous flamboyant jogger Snickers ad in which Mister T, of all people, tells him to “Get some nuts.”. [HRC]

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 07-24-2008
Wednesday, July 23

SC "So Gay" Scandal Takes New Twist

South Carolina’s “So Gay” ad scandal continues to stink. State tourism officials claim the ad, which they refused to fund, was approved by a “low-level employee.” Advertising agents in the know, however, tell a very different tale: Pursuing a deal to advertise South Carolina...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 07-23-2008

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