Adshel Removes Gay-Friendly Ad, Then Reinstates It

Adshel Removes Gay-Friendly Ad, Then Reinstates It

So, Adshel is the company responsible for most ads one sees installed in bus shelters across Australia and New Zealand. One of their bus posters, a condom ad featuring two men embracing (a couple in real life, as it happens), was targeted by members of the Australian Christian Lobby as inappropriate, causing it to be taken down from its locations in Brisbane.

Clicktivism saved the day, however, with a Facebook group arising to protest the removal of the ad, and once Adshel was made aware that it was the efforts of ACL, not individual members of the community, that brought it down, Adshel decided to reinstate it.

ACL Queensland director Wendy Francis has tried to dispute accusations of homophobia by claiming the ads were inappropriate for public view not due to the couple being gay, but that by embracing they were engaged in “sort of act of foreplay”. Meanwhile, similar ads across the city showing het couples in similar “acts” did NOT get yanked down.

Sucks that haters can still hold such sway in relatively progressive countries like Oz, but it’s getting faster and easier to fight back with the power of the internet and young people at their best!

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