I'm pretty impressed with my home town, today. Some pretty solid community groups, with government support, launched a national TV campaign against homophobia yesterday. I really like the ads - they are ultimately targeted at non queer folk and their complicity in homophobia, which is a necessary shift, I think. There is an argument that these ads promote the GLBT community as 'victims', but homophobia is not a victimless crime.
I also like that it's not trying to say lesbians and gay men blend in and you might not know someone is gay. The dykes in the ad look like dykes and they're treated badly because of it. I, of course, love that they have a woman being singled out for bring butch. It's actually validating to see it on TV, even though it's a 'negative' ad.
I have no doubt it will polarise some, but you can make up your own mind:
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