I knew it..
The moment I saw the pic in LA Times, I thought here it comes, someone will say something about Sister Margaret in face. At that point in the evening, the ballots had been cast, it was a gay party, I don't see a problem with her in face.
I think the campaign showed us another thing. What was made very clear by our own commercials is even the happy couples in tuxes, even the lipstick lesbians who look like any other business woman, even the professional looking gay men, were absent.
I'm sure it was the focus groups that told us WE needed to not be seen in order to come close to winning. By WE I mean any one of us. The papers picked up on the absence of gays and lesbians in our own commercials. Even the commercial played during Ugly Betty showed every member of the Suarez family except Justin.
Only in the last commercial did we show gay and lesbian headed families. Of course, they all were sure to make sure the couples looked just like any suburban dad or mom, and they always had children. I would have liked that commercial to actually show it was Samuel L Jackson speaking as well, but maybe the focus groups said that would turn off the white voters. Who knows?
I guess the point I'm trying to make is it's really sad that we're told we can't be visible if we expect to have rights. We have to let others pitch our cause. I would have liked to see the couples with that universal look of love and joy with their families around them supporting and loving them for who they are. I think that would have been the more powerful message.
I think the campaign showed us another thing. What was made very clear by our own commercials is even the happy couples in tuxes, even the lipstick lesbians who look like any other business woman, even the professional looking gay men, were absent.
I'm sure it was the focus groups that told us WE needed to not be seen in order to come close to winning. By WE I mean any one of us. The papers picked up on the absence of gays and lesbians in our own commercials. Even the commercial played during Ugly Betty showed every member of the Suarez family except Justin.
Only in the last commercial did we show gay and lesbian headed families. Of course, they all were sure to make sure the couples looked just like any suburban dad or mom, and they always had children. I would have liked that commercial to actually show it was Samuel L Jackson speaking as well, but maybe the focus groups said that would turn off the white voters. Who knows?
I guess the point I'm trying to make is it's really sad that we're told we can't be visible if we expect to have rights. We have to let others pitch our cause. I would have liked to see the couples with that universal look of love and joy with their families around them supporting and loving them for who they are. I think that would have been the more powerful message.