First Look at GLAAD's New Ad Targeting Black Families
Earlier this week we mentioned the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) planned to unveil a new public service campaign to encourage parental acceptance of black LGBT youth. Here is a first look at the creative.
The ads feature 21-year-old Krystal Freeman, an Occidental College senior and architecture major. The ad begins running today in print and electronic media, including the Chicago Defender, New York Amsterdam News and on both AOL Black Voices and Black America Web.
It's a wonderful ad and kudos to GLAAD for debuting it over Mother's Day weekend. It's reminiscent of last year's "Would You Stop Loving Him?" campaign that debuted over Father's Day in New York City.
There is also a very nice online banner of the PSA at GLAAD's webportal. You can watch it here. And while we're talking about new adverts, make sure you check out Faith in America's new campaign to end religious-based bigotry against LGBT communities.
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Damn - good luck trying to get either Christians or their churches to change. Remember, this is the very same religion that used the Bible to justify slavery in the 1800s and that is still using the Bible to justify the 2nd class status of women.....
Posted by: James | 13 May 2007 at 19:35
Yeah, James, and what's ironic is that the black churches cropped up at least in part in response to slavery, segregation, and overall racism in the white-dominated churches. Now so many of them are going out and finding their own targets to discriminate. How hypocritical and truly sad. But I still think this ad campaign shows promise. I think blacks, gays, Hispanic (and other) immigrants, pro-choice women (and men), secularists/atheists/agnostics, organized labor, Muslims, Jews, et al. are beginning to realize that the only way to go about things is that when the right-wing behemoth attacks one of us, they attack all of us.
As a great man once said "We must all hang together, or we shall surely hang separately."
Posted by: Homo Ffectional | 14 May 2007 at 09:57
We must all hang together as LGBT people supporting our youth. Please check out an interview with the director of the Ruth Ellis Center in Detroit. They provide extensive services to LGBT homeless youth. The number of contacts they have with kids have risen exponentially in the last few years.
http://ourmichigan.blogspot.com/2007/05/hope-for-lgbt-homeless-youth-in.html
Posted by: Celeste Whiting | 15 May 2007 at 09:17
As a great man once said "We must all hang together, or we shall surely hang separately."
Posted by: Juno888 | 20 May 2007 at 22:46