Comments on: The Direct Approach

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:46:49 +0000

werdna,

Yes, I have trouble with the correct usage of affected and effected.

By: werdna

werdna — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:59:49 +0000

I think you meant "affected" not "effected" in the first sentence. Great ad though, and it's just the latest in a remarkable campaign that Triad Equality Alliance started 5 years ago.

By: Ben in Oakland

Ben in Oakland — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:49:14 +0000

I’m scared. They’re showing real homosexuals. That’s downright…

…honest.

By: tristram

tristram — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:04:35 +0000

The ads being run by the No on 1 folks in Maine are great – some of them very much like this. I hope you’ll keep plugging them and mentioning how to donate to keep them running!

By: Burr

Burr — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:00:30 +0000

The guy that didn’t like sure put some deep, profound though into it:

“They shouldn’t be putting up things that people don’t agree with.”

Uhhh yeah.. except for that whole 1st amendment thing..

What is he.. ANTI-AMERICAN VALUES?

By: lurker

lurker — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:47:25 +0000

“Of course, not everyone is happy about it.”

Yes, of course *someone* will be not happy about just about *anything* . . . but it seems that the tv station went out of their way to find a) someone who thought the sign was bad and b) someone who thought the sign was ok. Kind of formulaic, like they were just going through the motions. Nobody seemed particularly riled up one way or another.

It seems like a very queer-positive tv spot to me.

By: Burr

Burr — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:10:43 +0000

We need more of this in more places. This is the groundwork that needs to be laid before political campaigns are viable in the more hostile places.

By: Mark F.

Mark F. — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:09:03 +0000

Too bad they didn’t run these sort of ads in CA last year.

By: Richard W. Fitch

Richard W. Fitch — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:08:46 +0000

@GreenEyedLilo: … which promotes me to lament that Del Martin is not still alive to celebrate with Phyllis Lyon this kind of progress. They were “engaged” for 55 years before their official marriage last year in SF. But of course that only lasted about 2 months. I guess the “Maggies” are right. ;-)

By: GreenEyedLilo

GreenEyedLilo — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:55:46 +0000

Fantastic. I love that they show an older couple, too.