Travel + Leisure's Openly Gay Editor Proudly Defends Ad That Some Attacked as 'Unnatural'

Tolerance goes 'hand in hand with a love of travel'

The American Family Association calls it "unnatural and offensive," but a Hilton ad featuring a gay couple in Travel + Leisure is a point of tremendous pride for the magazine's editor.

Responding to an AFA petition that had nearly 50,000 signatures by Friday evening, editor Nathan Lump wrote a lengthy and personal note about his own experiences as an openly gay, married man. 

At issue is an ad in which Hilton showed two men in bed together, sharing a pair of earbuds and holding each other.

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