Have you all read about this? An advertising campaign launched on the London Underground during gay pride week earlier this month has caused a political storm in South Carolina.
Posters, displayed at Leicester Square and Covent Garden tube stations in the two-week period surrounding the festival, were designed to promote a gay tour operator and to increase tourism to various US destinations noted for being gay-friendly.
News of the campaign and a poster with the tagline "South Carolina is so gay" reached the state late last week where it was condemned by Senator David Thomas. The state employee who approved the campaign has since resigned and Senator Thomas is calling for an audit of the tourism department's advertising budget, which this year runs in excess of $10m. The tourism department has also refused to pay the $5,000 fee for appearing in the campaign and has asked that the advertising be removed.
2 comments:
this is too good!! Double points to the homophobic state of south Carolina and the gay pride community! I can smell the southern homemade contempt from the west coast. Yikes..
i wonder how many people who grew up gay in sc agree with this ad...
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