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Why we aren’t in the Pride Guide this year – reservations about the deal with Willamette Week

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The 2008 qPDX Pride Guide ad

This Wednesday the Willamette Week, the alternative newsweekly that was given the rights to publish the Pride Guide this year, released the 2011 official Portland Pride Guide. Unfortunately, you won’t see us in it.

qPDX has had an ad in the Pride Guide for the last 4 years so it feels a little sad to be left out this year, but it just had to be. Ultimately, it was about cost, but there are a few things that gave us pause, including the implication that Willamette Week wouldn’t necessarily run articles concerning the LGBT community without striking a business deal.

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Written by || Mon, Jun 13th 2011 at 12:16 PM || Tags: , , , , , , , || Category: Business, Community, Gossip & Celebs, Pride || 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

American Apparel starts trans clothing line - or is it just a bad joke?

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American Apparel has either launched a clothing line for mtf trans people or someone is playing a joke

American Apparel has either launched a clothing line for mtf trans people or someone is playing a joke

Is it really love or just a game? American Apparel has apparently launched a new line of clothing for MTF trans people called Trans Am, or someone is making a very bad and very elaborate joke. There is a lot of conflicting news fluttering around the web about this at the moment, and a lot of it is commentary from other blogs (which isn’t necessarily reliable, critical or very trans-friendly) but so far not much from AA itself. I checked out AA’s website but no information is listed to either confirm or deny that this is an official AA campaign.

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Written by || Mon, Mar 15th 2010 at 12:35 PM || Tags: , , , , || Category: Style || 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

str8 cologne an issue of h8 or just annoying?

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It's the only way, apparently

STR8's the only way, apparently

A brand of cologne called “STR8” as been fluttering around the internet for a little while – complete with seemingly homophobic tagline: “STR8. There’s no other way”

What is this? The work of another group of religious nuts? Scientology side-income? No – seems like a hungarian/polish perfume company making a quick buck on the back of good-old american wistfulness for the great beyond.

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Written by || Tue, Dec 1st 2009 at 02:22 PM || Tags: , , , , || Category: Nat'l / Int'l News, Style || Comments are closed

Bacardi comes up with fat phobic, sexist ad campaign

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Sexist, Sizist advertising by Bacardi

Sexist, Sizist advertising by Bacardi

I just found out via Facebook that Bacardi has decided it’s a great idea to come up with a sizist, sexist ad campaign for their Bacardi rum. Another example of stupid people getting paid too much?

I really feel that addressing sizism and sexism in the queer community and in society in general  is part of  my “mission” as a queer person  to create a more equal, more loving, more respectful and diverse society. There are so many hot big girls and boys (and everyone in between) in this town. Plus, we all know queers drink a lot. (let’s be honest, here)

Fuck You Bacardi, I don’t support any alcohol that uses discriminatory practices in their advertising !

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Written by || Sat, Jun 20th 2009 at 02:56 PM || Tags: , , , , || Category: Community, Film, Nat'l / Int'l News, Style || 5 comments - (Comments are closed)