The Advocate (a gay newspaper):
The idea makes the head spin: Mitt Romney marrying Donald Trump. Michele Bachmann marrying Sarah Palin. And President Obama officiating at both weddings.
Dating website BeautifulPeople.com has launched a campaign featuring the “weddings,” with actors portraying the famous politicos, to publicize its new gay and lesbian versions, BeautifulPeopleGay.com and BeautifulPeopleWomenOnly.com. After a billboard company rejected the images, BeautifulPeople.com put up “censored” versions, with outlines only, this week in cities including Clearwater, Fla., and West Hollywood, with the full versions on mobile billboards in New York City and on the company’s website.
“This is a national campaign championing equal rights for the LGBT community and pledging support in a colorful way,” said Greg Hodge, Beautiful People’s managing director, in a press release. “Through a humorous campaign we wanted to showcase how many of our political heavyweights are living in the last century.” For every membership to the gay and lesbian sites, Beautiful People will donate 15% of the fee to a nonprofit championing marriage equality.
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Championing special rights under the guise of "equality" and using offensive scenes like this. But if someone who disagrees with it is offended, then they are the bigots. Yeah...that makes sense.
Stay classy, stay classy.
Isn't it incredible how unerringly accurate the opposition has suddenly become, in shooting itself in the foot?
This campaign will work brilliantly- against pseudo-marriage.
I think it's kinda funny.
I don't get it. Why do homosexual activists want to portray their opponents as homosexuals? It's almost inevitable. If you come out against their agenda, they'll call you gay. What is the point of that? Are they saying that being gay is a bad thing?
I'm offended by being told i live in the last century. Obviously, i am living the the present century, which is the 'last' century, so far (duh). I'm offended by self-serving comments which defy logic and then get me called a bigot. Just because someone knows how to use Photoshop photo software doesn't mean they make sense, even in humor. I can also show two 'gay' political heavyweights (and fat) getting a so-called divorce, with Obama officiating. But Obama is always campaigning, not being President, so wouldn't be realistic..
Reminds me of the Benetton "Unhate" ads with photoshopped celebrities kissing: Obama + Chavez, the Pope + Sheik Ahmed el_Tayeb. Consumers hated the ads and their stock tanked.
http://www.homegriddle.com/2011/11/kissing-men-in-benetton-unhate-ads.html
Why are you offended? If a billboard showed me Getting a heterosexual marriage I wouldn't be offended. It's just funny lol
Someone should make a " colorful" billboard with Barney Frank marrying a woman and Ellen DeGeneres marrying a man and the Pope could perform the weddings. I wonder what the repercussions of that would be.
oh lighten up. the ads are funny.
This coming from a dating sight in which members vote on whether potential members are attractive enough to join. Some folks never develop emotionally beyond age 12.
I like the billboards b/c they're so out of touch with reality that they'll have the opposite of the intended effect. As Rick said, the opposition has shot itself squarely in the foot. And yes, mominvermont, it's the "Benetton effect."
The ads are neither funny nor offensive, and won't have any effect on anything. We're talking about an obscure website no one's ever heard of, and if people were to hear of this, I think most of them would react as I have: "Hmm. That's stupid. Whatever." . . . and move on.
As for the turned-tables hypothetical, it would depend on the speaker and the context.
One more thing: The excerpt above does not contain the word "bigot". I would classify some SSM opponents as bigoted, and the rest as prejudiced, ignorant, frightened, hate-filled, some of the above, all of the above, other . . . Very few people or organizations label all opponents as bigots.
Right, it is just a joke ---- with a message that the SSMers cannot deny. So they pretend it is funny hah-hah rather than funny-weird.
A swing and a miss.
Oh well.
MarriedGayChristian: You forgot to add yourself to the funny list
MarriedGayChristian: You see, you prove 'gays' can get married in every State, and can get 1000 Federal benefits by doing so. Oh, the number increased to 1100, and then 1300, and now some put it at 1400. Anyway, there's 'equality' - can't get more equal than that.
Pocketharpy because research shows that most homophobic people are just terrified to face their own homosexual thoughts!