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PHOTOSHOP CONTEST: Make Your Own “He’s the One” Frankengay Ad Campaign

Did you hate the creepy HIV awareness ad as much as we did? When the Illinois Department of Public Health gives you lemons, make something fabulous! We’re doing a Photshop contest, asking people to make […]

Posted in: Contests, Culture & Style, Health & Wellness 15 years ago 61

FOF #1190 – She’s the One

People are outraged over the Illinois Department of Public Health’s bizarre ad campaign targeting gay men called “He’s the One.” And no, it’s not “He’s the one,” as in “Ooh la la, he’s Prince Charming” it’s “He’s the one, that will infect you.”

What was the ad campaign supposed to accomplish, and why did it even run in the first place, in a gay newspaper of all places?

Posted in: Health & Wellness, Podcast 15 years ago 13

FOF #1189 – Sweet Tea and Sympathy

Writer and oral historian E Patrick Johnson spent two years traveling the South to interview almost a hundred men for his extraordinary book Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South. He’s now briging these men’s stories to life with a theatrical adapation of the book.

Listen as we talk about the responsibility of performing these men’s powerful stories and on the unnerving use of slur words in books, films and theater.

Posted in: Actors, Podcast, Writers 15 years ago 6

“He’s the One” Campaign Is Bait and Switch

When I saw this ad on a bathroom wall in a gay bar in Chicago, I thought it was for a dating site and didn’t think much of it. It was just a weird composite […]

Posted in: Health & Wellness, Politics & Activism 15 years ago 54