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Gay-Friendly McDonald’s Ad

France – The new commercial of McDonald’s is now generating a tremendous amount of Buzz online. In the said commercial, a teenage boy sits in a McDonald’s booth and looking at his class picture when his phone rings.

“I was just thinking about you,” he says, with obvious affection. “I miss you, too” he replies, and then says that he has to go. His dad is coming to the booth with their food. Father sits across from son and comments that he was “quite the ladies’ man” when he was his son’s age. Dad then looks at the class picture and remarks that “it’s too bad” that his son’s class is all boys. The son can only smile.

In short, the son is gay. A tag line appear after the scene, “Come as You Are” in French. According to McDonald’s spokesperson Nathalie Legarlantezec, “We wanted to show society the way it is today, without judging. There’s obviously no problem with homosexuality in France today,” she told French media. (more…)

Ricky Martin is Gay!

[pullquote]I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.[/pullquote]

ricky-martinA message from the “Livin’ La Vida Loca” singer Ricky Martin posted on his official website. Ricky was thinking about his two twin sons while writing his memoir because they are the ones who led him to go public.

He wrote, “To keep living as I did up until today would be to indirectly diminish the glow that my kids where born with. Enough is enough. This has to change. This was not supposed to happen 5 or 10 years ago, it is supposed to happen now. Today is my day, this is my time, and this is my moment.”

According to him, keeping his sexuality for the past years made him stronger. “These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn’t even know existed,” he continued. “What will happen from now on? It doesn’t matter. I can only focus on what’s happening to me in this moment. (more…)