> To: trenton@netcom.com > Date: Fri, 19 Nov 93 18:59:52 EST > Subject: Gay Television > > The following is a bit that showed up in the New York Daily (or some such > paper): > > COMING OUT'S DEBUT: The nation's first network TV commercial of a product > specifically for gays hits the airwaves Dec. 3. > > Appropriately, the spot for Out Magazine, a national lifestyle magazine for > gays and lesbians, will air during "Out There," TV's first gay and lesbian > comedy special on cable's Comedy Central. > > Michael Goff, editor of the SoHo-based magazine, said the commercial and the > show are significant because there are "few gay images on TV and in the > movies." > > Goff noted: "That we're makikng an ad that is unapologetically and > matter-of-factly gay on network televison is a big deal." > > His magazine has attracted big advertisers - including Apple Computer, Banana > Republic, Armani and Benneton. > > Out says it now has a paid circulation of 87,662, making it the biggest gay > lifestyle magazine in the country. But, its potential is huge, if you > consider that anywhere from 5 percent to 15 percent of the population is > homosexual, depending on whose statistics you use, said spokesman Michael > Kaminer. > > The TV spot is being created by Mad Dogs & Englishmen, a New York shop that > is known for its Village Voice and The Economist campaigns. > --- Trenton del Rey Gallowglass trenton@netcom.com "But, Mr. Martin, have you seen Paris?" "Yes, I have. [..] It's a chaos--a confused multitude, where everybody seeks pleasure and scarcely anyone finds it [...]" --Voltaire in _Candide_