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Offline delalluvia

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Re: Gay Icon Immortalized
« Reply #40 on: August 11, 2009, 06:45:07 pm »
*sigh*

Sex sells.

Has for the last several millennia.  Nothing much is going to change that.

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Re: Gay Icon Immortalized
« Reply #41 on: August 11, 2009, 06:48:20 pm »
*sigh*

Sex sells.

Has for the last several millennia.  Nothing much is going to change that.

Of course. And we in the business actually take a pretty dim view of companies that can't think of any other way to sell their products. Sometimes the products are so that bad that they cannot compete with similar products from the competition. 
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Re: Gay Icon Immortalized
« Reply #42 on: August 11, 2009, 07:05:56 pm »
Laura is certainly right, my friend.  Gary, I love your fiction, but your social commentary/editorial style writings are amazing...and you're only getting better!

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Re: Gay Icon Immortalized
« Reply #43 on: August 11, 2009, 07:35:23 pm »

More pics of Matthew . . . .

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Re: Gay Icon Immortalized
« Reply #44 on: August 11, 2009, 07:36:13 pm »
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Re: Gay Icon Immortalized
« Reply #45 on: August 11, 2009, 07:39:01 pm »
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Re: Gay Icon Immortalized
« Reply #46 on: August 11, 2009, 09:16:26 pm »

Why didn't he want to be the next Greg Louganis?

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Re: Gay Icon Immortalized
« Reply #47 on: August 11, 2009, 09:37:25 pm »
You notice it didn't interfere with Kristi Yamaguchi winning the 2008 Dancing with the Stars competition.

That's a good point. Maybe she was not the "wholesome all-American" for some advertiser back whenever, but she certainly didn't have that problem with DWTS audience. They loved her.

Well, in 2008 Kristi may have not had a problem, but when she won gold, it was a different story.

I'm a huge figure skating fan, and saw a show where Dorothy Hamil, Kristi Yamaguchi, and Nancy Kerrigan were interviewed.  Kristi revealed that she received no endorsement deals at first.  She was not the typical image of an American skating princess.  On top of that, she is Japanese, and Americans had marked the 50th annivesary of the attack on Pearl Harbor the year prior.

It wasn't until skating as a pro for a year or two that she started to get endorsements.


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Re: Gay Icon Immortalized
« Reply #48 on: August 11, 2009, 11:49:29 pm »
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Re: Gay Icon Immortalized
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