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You heard it from the nice-looking woman in glasses -- you can change. Just stop your self-hating lifestyle and accept that you're into the opposite sex. It's that easy.
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that ad is so gay.
That lady on that poster looks kinda like she might possibly be a lesbian.
Freddies is a gay bar?
Ugh, those exodus people go on and on about how much they love the gays...now they have to put it on a billboard!
Maybe they're secretly gay....I just wish they wouldn't flaunt it so much!
Freddie's is not a gay bar. It is a rainbow-themed bar. Which I would imagine is some type of off-shoot of Irish-themed bars.
today's news:
struggling middle-aged model smiles, says she is not gay.
Does anybody know what kind of fine the Metro cops will give you for vandalizing the advertising?
That sign is crying out for some creative alterations....how about adding "AND FOUND I LOVE IT" underneath the "I questioned homosexuality" quote, then putting "YOU TOO CAN BE GAY" under the "Discover how" part?
Are we all gay on Gay Pride Day?
If I can change, and you can change, then we all can change.
is she my alternative?
Wait, that ad is confusing, did the women question whether she liked homosexuality and go from being straight to gay?
I was confused too Sam, what tipped me off was that the "it's okay to be gay" people aren't organized into a group that can buy ads, and they wouldn't phrase the ad this ambiguously even if they were. But the phrasing and presentation is totally consistent with the converters. Turns out of you google "love won out june 10" you find info about the conference they held that day.
I was confused too Sam, what tipped me off was that the "it's okay to be gay" people aren't organized into a group that can buy ads, and they wouldn't phrase the ad this ambiguously even if they were. But the phrasing and presentation is totally consistent with the converters. Turns out if you google "love won out june 10" you find info about the conference they held that day. You also find that the sponsor is Focus on the Family.
I've become suspicious of all advertisers in Metro stations with ".to" Web site addresses.
The URL in the bottom left corner is (and linked in Martin's post) should give it away.
Saw some version of this ad at the Woodley Park Metro stop and got more than a little heated.
While I find them utterly annoying, I think they're the price we pay for living in a free(ish) society. This issue came up a few years back when PFOX (Parents and "Friends" of Ex-gays) ran some PSAs for free on Metro. Most gay groups in the city didn't want to censor PFOX because the flip side of that coin could stop their own ads.
http://www.washblade.com/2003/11-7/news/localnews/metro.cfm
Focus on the family sucks. Simple.
"Love won out" ... wait, so gay people are incapable of love? I know most of my friends are bitter, but come on! :)
Love, love will tear us apart, again.
someone should write "to love dick" under the discover how. I bet that would really piss off focus on the family.
I just wish they'd say what they really mean rather than trying to hide behind a squishy image and slogan. The group sponsering the ad is offensive- the ad is weak and vague.
Love may have won the battle, but in the end, the homosexual cabal will win the war.
Sure, this is a product of a free(ish) society, but really I can't remember the last time I saw a pro-gay poster at a Metro station/on a Metrobus. Or, for that matter, a pro-choice poster. I can vividly recall the anti- posters, however.
Am I just blinded by my own bias, and missing the posters? Or have other people seen pro-gay/pro-choice posters? By law, I believe, DC is required to give equal access to all sides of an issue.
I believe I've seen a pro-choice poster. Can't recall the specifics though. Definitely have seen more of the "pro-choice myth" posters (though they have luckily fallen out of rotation lately).
Equal access is not really an issue when the side making all the noise is quite clearly nuts. If they want to pay for ads that look like Onion headlines, there's really no point in a response. Lampooning them, of course, is its own reward.
The more I think about this the less I like it. (And I didn't like it when I first saw the picture.)
I am offended that metro allows such offensive content in their advertising. Being that they are partly municipal, can't we do something to stop hateful, biggoted advertising from being in the tunnels and on buses?
Look I know that this was brought up to highlight the ridiculous-ness of the ad in the metro, and yes I agree that this sort of thing has to be allowed in a free-speech loving sort of place (I have always thought of it this way: my being been willing to endure someone else's right to call me a faggot helps preserve my right to call mayself a faggot) BUT - isn't it better just to not give these goofs the puclicity? Why draw attention to them? (Tho I do like the idea of some choice alteratiosn to the sign.)
Being that they are partly municipal, can't we do something to stop hateful, biggoted advertising from being in the tunnels and on buses?
Actually, no. Because they are a municipal agency, they really can not pick and chose the types of political ads they allow. They could make a "no political or advocacy advertising" rule, but then they would lose 1/2 of their business (all those ads for how many jobs Cable TV creates and for the new Littoral Combat Ship, etc etc). But if they agree to accept one type of political ad, they pretty much have to either take them all, or face a nice lawsuit.
this poster is a little bit more thought provoking than "West Virginia: Come Discocer our Mixing Bowl" that are all over metro center.
the best are the adds inside the metro cars telling me that I can succeed if I go to University of State College University-Maryland Campus.
everybody on this site must be gay....gay people suck
Everyone who wears rectangular glasses looks gay to me, which, since thats the "in" style for urban yuppies, makes me think everyone who lives in the city is gay, which is almost true anyway these days. It's sort of like europeans always look gay to me cause of the way they dress. This woman must be a lesbo, and exodus didn't work. I must just be one of these suburban gay boys who probably needs to go rectangular or I will never find a boyfriend....or maybe it's just because I live in the Virginia suburbs cause I grew up there and as long as we NOVA natives live in this area we stay somewhere in NOVA. God, I hate the rectangular glasses though, especially with thick frames.
Everyone who wears rectangular glasses looks gay to me, which, since thats the "in" style for urban yuppies, makes me think everyone who lives in the city is gay, which is almost true anyway these days. It's sort of like europeans always look gay to me cause of the way they dress. This woman must be a lesbo, and exodus didn't work. I must just be one of these suburban gay boys who probably needs to go rectangular or I will never find a boyfriend....or maybe it's just because I live in the Virginia suburbs cause I grew up there and as long as we NOVA natives live in this area we stay somewhere in NOVA. God, I hate the rectangular glasses though, especially with thick frames.
Everyone who wears rectangular glasses looks gay to me, which, since thats the "in" style for urban yuppies, makes me think everyone who lives in the city is gay, which is almost true anyway these days. It's sort of like europeans always look gay to me cause of the way they dress. This woman must be a lesbo, and exodus didn't work. I must just be one of these suburban gay boys who probably needs to go rectangular or I will never find a boyfriend....or maybe it's just because I live in the Virginia suburbs, where I grew up. God, I hate the rectangular glasses though, especially with thick frames.
Everyone who wears rectangular glasses looks gay to me, which, since thats the "in" style for urban yuppies, makes me think everyone who lives in the city is gay, which is almost true anyway these days. It's sort of like europeans always look gay to me cause of the way they dress. This woman must be a lesbo, and exodus didn't work. I must just be one of these suburban gay boys who probably needs to go rectangular or I will never find a boyfriend....or maybe it's just because I live in the Virginia suburbs, where I grew up. God, I hate the rectangular glasses though, especially with thick frames.
P.S. I hope they get Fred Phelps to put up a sign next time. He's done more for gay rights than any gay person ever has.
ZZ, I think any publicity these organizations get is BAD publicity. Maybe I'm giving the public too much credit, but I think that the more people hear their message, the more people realize these organizations are nuts.
Having grown up in the land of Fred Phelps, I know people who have reevaluated their stances on homosexuality based largely on their desire to distance themselves from the views expressed by the Phelps clan. Or, maybe they're just saying that to my face because they still enacted laws to ban same-sex marriage. Sigh.
If this bothers you, please write to WMATA and let them know.
Will somebody please take a sharpie and draw a "thought balloon" coming out of this woman's head with a crude sketch of a vagina inside?
Dude, I totally thought those were pro-homosexuality ads--when she said "love won out," I thought she meant she stopped caring about societal concerns and bigotry and went where her heart wanted to go, which was in the arms of another woman. I thought, good for her, but who the hell would pay for an ad like that?
But I think we should draw attention to these ads because, well, they're funny and pathetic. If James Dobson is willing to blow money (heh heh, I said blow) on such ridiculous, confusing ads, we should take the time to laugh, shake our heads, and ridicule his antiquated and repressive organization. Does is sadden me that some homosexuals may buy in? What percentage of DC homosexuals do you think that is? The best way to fight such ignorance and attempts to mislead is to publicly lambast such organizations.
By the way, I wear rectangular plastic frames because they're far more comfortable and lighter than wire frames.
Funny... that's not the poster I saw.
Reminds me of an old Onion article - "Why do all these homosexuals keep sucking my cock?"
That ad, by the way, has vanished from the Woodley Park station. It was there for only a few weeks...much shorter than the usual rotation.
it disappeared from the judiciary square metro about three days ago too!
I questioned Christianity. Change is possible. Reason one out!
Change to a lifetime of self-hatred and denial is possible.
um, it's not the rectangular glasses. everyone in this town IS gay. hence the sign -- they're just trying to stop their dwindling staightnik numbers!
I grew up in Jamaica. Yeah, I've heard that crap my whole life. I'm just lucky I wasn't one of those guy who got sucked into that whole "Jesus wants you to be a good hetero, not a naughty homo" junk that the church peddles. I went to the Stonewall Street Festival in Wilton Manors on Sunday and ran into a couple of Jamaican guys. We were all laughing about being "naughty homos out on parade" :-)
If love won out, then she's gay, right? I'm really glad the lesbian decided to stay with her partner, b/c i was really worried that this was a site against gay rights!