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October 20, 2005
Tom! The Token Gay Friend
The Human Rights Campaign has created a couple of public service announcements that are funny, smart and quite possibly…effective (for once).
The spots feature a real cutie named Tom who runs around talking about important matters of the day with his car-fixing buddies and his gal pals. I know I’d wanna talk to Tom about some public servicing – but that’s another post for another day on another site!
Anyway, Tom takes on gender identity, gay marriage and much, much more in a sassy little campaign that reveals a clear change in tactics for the country's largest gay rights organization.
For once, they're actually being gay (as in jolly, handsome and attractive) rather than gay (as in judgmental, humorless and sour).
Even though these commercials are kinda, well, alotta cheesy, they raise an important issue - most heterosexuals, although their intentions seem good on the outside are really not interested in Gay rights or Gay people for that matter -- why should they be -- I mean, they don't have to be -- not really -- we (the Gay people) are, all of us, unfortunately, up against the same thing, the rare unsolicited magnanimous gestures of a few sensitive and feeling heterosexuals alert to the arbitrary and capricious nature of democratic peer pressure. A few see how their own squeamishness about sex, generally, and homosexual sex, or what they think homosexual sex is, specifically, skews their mental image and thought processes, and makes the needed adjustments -- But this attribute is not readily available in most heterosexual herds. Heterosexuals are by turns, hot and cold, grossly immature and squeamish about sex. They are democrats with a small "d," swept up by all kinds of unverifiable claims (see your local grocery store magazine racks). The propensity for rapacious rumor to take over a small herd is seriously underestimated by naieve Gays and Lesbians, believing that if we only come out, everything will be alright - - not .... I'm sick of sucking up to these people - unfortunately, that's what these commericals do, model sucking up in a nationwide ad campaign.
You know nowadays as soon as I see an attractive man I thnk he is a gay.