Travel + Leisure’s Openly Gay Editor Proudly Defends Ad That Some Attacked as ‘Unnatural’
Performance Marketing
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 [...]
Oreo Surprises 26 Million Facebook Fans With Gay Pride Post
Creativity
Oreo is widely known to be one of the most successful brands on Facebook, but tonight the brand proved it could be one of the boldest, too. Around 8 p.m.
Love! Valor! Consumerism! New York Tourism’s in Love With Same-Sex Marriage
Creativity
Latch on to the news of the day and—voila!—an ad campaign appears. W Hotels, nimble in its marketing and liberal in its thinking, just launched a "Right to Unite" package [...]
Gay Ikea ad bothers Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi
Creativity
An Ikea ad with two men holding hands next to the headline “We are open to all families” hasn’t caused much of a stir in Italy—except, it appears, in the [...]
Mexico introduces the world’s first gay beer
Creativity
A small Mexican brewery called Minerva has brewed several new beers targeted specifically at gay drinkers. Purple Hand Beer and Salamandra, supposedly the world's first "queer beers," are already available [...]
Hurry up and order your gay Christmas tree!
Creativity
L.A. is the proud home of this "Christmas just got gayer" billboard, advertising Treetopia's "gay" rainbow-colored Christmas trees. The trees are kind of cool, but they lose a little something [...]