After the Stonewall riots in 1969 companies began to become increasingly aware of the profitability of appealing to gay consumers. Promptly, marketers started targeting mythical ‘dream consumers’ - white, middle-class, gay men with double income, but no kids to spend it on.
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Beauty standards are everywhere we look, every day. In these times of photo-shopped images, and social experiments such as the Dove Real Beauty stunt, the detrimental effects of media portrayals are at the forefront of everybody’s minds.
Read MoreMaking Marriage Perfectly Queer: A Gay Marriage Critique
Ah, yes, that polarizing gay marriage debate, infused with the ‘you’re either with us or you’re against us’ mentality frequently pervasive in hot-button social issues. I’m not here to write an article about how I am gay and what gay marriage means to me; there are plenty of those around already.
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