{"id":642,"date":"2014-03-04T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=642"},"modified":"2014-03-04T08:39:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T14:39:10","slug":"same-sex-couples-in-banana-republic-ad-other-commercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/642","title":{"rendered":"Same-Sex Couples in Banana Republic Ad, Other Commercials"},"content":{"rendered":"

When apparel retailer Banana Republic decided to use model couples from real life, the company included interior designers Nate Berkus and his fianc\u00e9, Jeremiah Brent<\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0The photos of them rolling on the grass, cuddling, and posing with other models will appear in magazines including <\/span>InStyle<\/i> and <\/span>Rolling Stone.<\/i> The ad agency said that its goal was \u201cto reflect our world and how we live \u2026 in a true, genuine way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Another corporation, Coca-Cola, also used a gay couple in advertising, this time in its commercial during the most recent Super Bowl and later during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics. In its commercial for the same ceremony, Chevrolet showed a gay couple\u2019s Cape Cod wedding. Also seen in that ad were families with same-sex parents. Royal Caribbean International used teenage Tom Daley, a British diver who is dating another man; Daley will be a brand ambassador for Neo streetwear from Adidas.<\/p>\n

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When apparel retailer Banana Republic decided to use model couples from real life, the company included interior designers Nate Berkus and his fianc\u00e9, Jeremiah Brent.\u00a0The photos of them rolling on the grass, cuddling, and posing with other models will appear in magazines including InStyle and Rolling Stone. The ad agency said that its goal was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}