Pepsi supports the gays, the gays support Pepsi
Posted by Dan
January 30th, 2009 at 11:50am
In Adverts The Gays
If you’ve been paying attention to the gay blogosphere, you may have noticed that a recent English Pepsi ad has earned the ire of the American Family Association because of its gay content. (Helpful hint: Whenever an organization has the word “family” in it, they’re sure to be insane. And probably closeted too, but that’s for another time.”
Here’s the clip in question:
I’m not necessarily bowled over by Pepsi’s inclusiveness given the fact that the buddies are contorting their faces in the final frame as if they’d just watched a lion disembowel a gazelle. But I suppose I’ll take what I can get in terms of gays getting mainstream exposure.
2 Comments Add your own
1.
sara | January 30th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
They can’t be very good wingmen if they don’t know he’s gay. Jeez.
2. Allan | May 7th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Sure, hardly controversial or cutting edge. Seems safely het-giggly over two gay guys speaking to each other at a bar. At least the guy isn’t an incompetent drag queen who winds up getting beaten up comedically.
Search YouTube.com for Pepsi for new embed code. I found it but can’t paste it here. (Yours has been pulled by Pepsi, this one is still valid — not my video!):
Looks like he finally quit being their wingman and is taking care of himself! Cute ad, very mainstream. I agree, Dan, the cartoonishly exaggerated expressions on his two friends’ faces gets it in under the mainstream acceptability bar.
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