Clear Channel dumps Gay.com ad

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A group working to overturn same-sex marriage in Massachusetts has apparently pressured Clear Channel to take down a gay-themed billboard in Boston a day early. The ad, for Gay.com, had been up in Cambridge, Mass., since early April, but Clear Channel reacted to a handful of complaints made this week after a group called Article 8 Alliance posted the image on its Web site, along with Clear Channel’s phone number. “You have two men embracing, wrapped in the American flag, advertising a porno Web site,” Article 8 Alliance’s director says.

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