Bonus! The Bonkers-est Anti-Gay Ads of the 90s
From the 1990s into the 2000, Republican TV commercials said some genuinely deranged things about queer people. (Of course, Republicans are still huge weirdos about queer stuff; women's sports is just their fixation du jour.) And in making my recent marriage equality video, I was surprised at just how acceptable it was to make bonkers claims about queer people and queer life in the 90s and into the 2000. So for this week's bonus video, I want to show you some of the funniest/weirdest old ads that I dug up in my recent research.
Also, here's a link to that Sewers of Paris interview with Murray! https://www.mattbaume.com/sewers-shownotes/2026/7/18/a-great-excuse-for-touching-ep-574-interrupting-tv-showsmurray-edelman
Backup link to the bonus video: https://youtu.be/YiQ9jbRb3mE
Comments (3)
ADs like these really piss me off because it's a deliberate abuse of free speech. If they said those things about an individual it would be slander. Glad we don't have them in the UK.
Love the straight-up horror movie soundtrack to that ad, I swear they stole that whole vibe from ads for those nuclear fallout TV movies like The Day After & Threads that went around in the 80s. The dreaded Homopocalypse, y'all! Get under your desks where they can't turn you gay!!
🎵Go Go bonkers! Bonkers bonkers bonkers bonkers! Wherever you... wherever you... wherever you are!🎵 If you know, you know. Seriously though, you'd think that sooner or later they'd learn something and get just a little less bigoted. Maybe not a lot, maybe just a step, you know?