Written: 05/22/2011
Dan Savage responds to someone who goes apeshit over this ad playing during American Idol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7skPnJOZYdA
First of all, this is a campaign about Google Chrome and the family of Google products. Let’s not forget that fact.
Here is Dan’s rebuttal: (emphasis his)
The Google Chrome/”It Gets Better” ad doesn’t promote or discuss or campaign for homosexual sex. It acknowledges the existence of LGBT people and LGBT kids and gives those LGBT kids hope for their futures. Acknowledging the existence of LGBT people does not raise awareness of the specifics of gay sex anymore than acknowledging the existence of heterosexuals raises awareness of the specifics of heterosexual sex. This is a popular argument among haters like Nance: Talking about gay people = talking about buttfucking! But talking about straight people ≠ talking about twatfucking. Because straight relationships are not defined by sex. Straight relationships are about love and commitment and family and big fancy weddings and Jesus! But gay people? We’re not about any of those things. We’re about buttfucking.
This reminds me of my previous posts about how many actions and items that heterosexuals don’t even realize they’re shoving their own sexuality in my face: pictures, stories of their children, date nights, etc.
If you haven’t, go read the previous post, where I link to Rob’s post on his blog about his boyfriend putting together a shelf in their kitchen. That’s about love and commitment, not buttfucking. The two posts work very well together, probably more than either one of them know.
All my best,
The King of Spades
