Coming out...

[osodecanela]

“This isn’t easy for me either.”
“This isn’t how we raised you.”
“You’re going to tell me you never wanted to try it?”
“Enough!”
“You must have known I was different.”
“Not this different.”

I still haven't decided if I like this commercial or am offended by it. One one hand, I'm grateful to see the experience of a man coming out to his father portrayed on TV, though I'm not pleased to see it trivialized to sell a luxury automobile.

Visibility for our community is crucial, especially for our youth, but as important as that is, I have no desire to be a stereotype either.

Comments

[danthered.livejournal.com]

…because yeah, not only is coming out to family a funny, trivial joke, but the brand of car you drive is ROMGZ RILLY RILLY IMPORTANT AND FORMS THE VERY CORE OF YOUR IDENTITY AND FAMILY BONDS just like your sexual orientation!

Not.

Guess you can tell which camp I'll be counted in about it.

[osodecanela.livejournal.com]

***warning - age card about to be played***

As a gay man of a 'certain age', I remember all too well the veil of invisibility. There were essentially NO role models to look to during my childhood that were anything other than negative stereotypes. A lot happened in the two decades between when I was hatched and when you arrived on the scene. Stonewall. The APA removing homosexuality from the DSM II. {I was a college sophomore at the time.)

This is not to say that your generation had it easy coming to terms with being gay, but by the time you were going through it you had role models to look at. There were still horrible things going on, but at least the feeling you were the 'only one' wasn't one of them.

While I really dislike using the experience of coming out as method to sell a luxury car, seeing the act of disclosure of a son to his father is still something positive to see portrayed. This certainly isn't a commercial that would have been made a generation ago.

[tilia-tomentosa.livejournal.com]

What commercial?

[osodecanela.livejournal.com]

Dari, Google "Infinity car commercial coming out" and it will take you to the ad on Youtube. I'd like your take on it, if you're willing.