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…)