Budweiser has unexpectedly entered the gay rights debate with a new commercial focusing on a solder returning home and a young man waiting for him. Or have they? The debate on whether this is the first post-Don’t Ask Don’t Tell military ad has begun…
Budweiser’s nod to military gays?
Budweiser has unexpectedly entered the gay rights debate with a new commercial focusing on a solder returning home and a young man waiting for him. Or have they? The debate on whether this is the first post-Don’t Ask Don’t Tell military ad has begun…
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Huh? That’s reading a hell of a lot into not very much. Hetero men do speak to each other on the phone. They sometimes hug. They’ve even been known to hand each other beers. Or is it the fact that it’s Budweiser that implies gayness?
Ambiguous in a way advertisers seldom are unless they are trying to be so. Remember the old rule of 3 in beer advertising. You have to have 3 men because one man “says” alcoholic, two men “says” gay but three men “says” mates. Nice that they are leaving the possibility of interpretation open.
Can’t see VB doing that any time soon.
As a gay man that is a VERY STRAIGHT ad
If they had kissed it would have been gay.
His brother , possibly?