COURTING GAYS (Companies compete for "gay" market)

The New York Post ^ | November 5, 2004 | Paul Tharp

[The Loan Arranger]

Big companies are hoping to marry their brands to gays and lesbians this weekend — about 20,000 of them. In the first days after the presidential election — in which gay marriage proved to be a pivotal issue — the nation's biggest exposition on homosexual life is setting attendance records. Booths for exhibitors are also sold out for the first time at the Javits Center, which since 1999 has hosted Gay Life Expo, one of the center's liveliest trade shows. Companies ranging from Citigroup and American Express to Jet Blue and J.P. Morgan Chase are hawking their offerings to the crowds, described by organizers as brand-loyal big spenders who are hard to please.

[hushpad]

You might want to boycott everything, because I am sure much of what you own, so does some gay guy or lesbian.


You are way off the mark. What gays "own" is not at issue - those who pander to them are. . . .forget it. I cant talk to a brick wall . . .

[Bon mots]

[John Robertson]

dude, if you're going to avoid "all companies that support them at all cost," you're going to have to start raising goats for food, milk, shoes, etc. you're reading about marketing, not an out and out endorsement of gays, the gay lifestyle, etc. all big companies do this. it comes down to, how can we expand our market? in the purest, capitalistic sense, it's got nothing to do with lifestyle, it's just another customer constituency.

[Bella_Bru]

How well has your boycott worked? I really don't care what someone is boycotting, I just hate the smug attitude of, "I'm doing the right thing by boycotting; you aren't". If the self-righteousness didn't stink the place up so bad, I might actually support you in your boycott efforts.

No...no I wouldn't. I like Tylenol, JetBlue, and Amex too much. Oh, and Nordstroms.

[CyberAnt]

Fine .. then I guess they don't need my business. I'll be only too happy to take my business somewhere else.

[valleygal]

Procter and Gamble

[Cowboy Bob]

Will Coors Brewing be participating???

[valleygal]

This one is sick. It's a Procter and Gamble ad for Downey in a gay publication with two guys in bed together.

http://www.pgboycott.com/pgcommercialcloset.pdf

[Modernman]

It is the way they court gay people. Have you seen the advertisement for wrinkle release by P & G??

My understanding was that that ad was run only in gay publications, such as Out Magazine. P&G did not run the ad in any mainstream publication.

[Modernman]

Following that logic, why should I personally care about murder in Cleveland?

Apples and oranges. Murder harms the rights of others. Homosexuality, while arguably immoral, harms no one's rights.

[Modernman]

Than God we have the self anointed like you to set us, uh, er, straight.

Everyone is free to do business with whomever they choose. I could refuse to do business with Mormon-run companies, but my refusal would be just as irrational.

[Modernman]

Because that eeeeviiiil queer might get his queerness all over your CD or savings account!

Great. Just what I need. A gay bank account.

[JoJo Gunn]

Please, enlighten me. Explain "rational".

[MississippiMan]

Apples and oranges. Murder harms the rights of others. Homosexuality, while arguably immoral, harms no one's rights.

Bullhockey.

• First, yet another huge rip in the moral fabric of this society does incalculable harm. (See ROMAN EMPIRE for effect of decadence on society.)

• Denigrating the institution of marriage will do enormous harm; our society is built around marriage and family, and the homosexual agenda is systematically tearing that nucleus down.

• Third, we'll all end up paying for the huge health care costs associated with homosexuality.

• Fourth, the political correctness associated with it already puts innocents at risk. You can be tucked away to protect society if you have tuberculosis, but in many states it's illegal to make it known that a health care worker has AIDS, or a kitchen worker, etc.

• Fifth, because the pro-homosexuals have so thoroughly infested the public education system, kids are at genuine risk of being recruited into this destructive lifestyle.

As stated before, we take positions not only because they will or will not impact us personally and immediately, but also because of the larger and longer-term effects of the issue or behavior at hand.

MM

[KoRn]

</B>Next time I have a big interview I'm gonna show up as a gay transexual female minority with a disability. I will be a lock for the position!!</B>

[KoRn]

With good HTML even!!

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

This is one example and yes it is ran in a gay magazine, but you would never see a downey commercial with two heterosexuals in bed having steamy sex to advertise fabric softener.

[Modernman]

Please, enlighten me. Explain "rational".

Behavior that is consistent with or in line with reason and logic.

[Glenn]

American Express, Wells Fargo, Anheuser-Busch, Proctor & Gamble

T-Mobile is running a national ad campaign about "couples minutes". In their ad, they are showing a gay (male) couple arguing about their cell bill that is over the minutes because they are talking to one another. I will never buy anything from T-Mobile.

[Modernman]

First, yet another huge rip in the moral fabric of this society does incalculable harm. (See ROMAN EMPIRE for effect of decadence on society.)

A company marketing to homosexuals in no way contributes to this. The homosexuals already exist.

Denigrating the institution of marriage will do enormous harm; our society is built around marriage and family, and the homosexual agenda is systematically tearing that nucleus down.

Same point as above.

Third, we'll all end up paying for the huge health care costs associated with homosexuality.

Same point as above.

Fourth, the political correctness associated with it already puts innocents at risk. You can be tucked away to protect society if you have tuberculosis, but in many states it's illegal to make it known that a health care worker has AIDS, or a kitchen worker, etc.

Same point as above.

Fifth, because the pro-homosexuals have so thoroughly infested the public education system, kids are at genuine risk of being recruited into this destructive lifestyle.

Same point as above.