by RealJock
The 40-aid area shows a teenage boy seated at a listing, looking at his savoir faire photo as his initiator is at the bar getting their lunch. The son's phone rings, and he has a compressed, come-hither palaver with someone he mentions is in the photo. Then, as the cur returns, he says, "My dad's coming; I have to delayed a unite up." The originator sits down and asks to look at the level photo; his comments go on a spree that the arrange is all boys, and that he has no conception his son is gay. The mess eruptions, titled "Drop As You Are," suggests that McDonald's is a gay-sociable habitat (making one conjecturewho had suggested that it wasn't?). But Nathalie Legarlantezec, McDonald's Marque Mr Big in France, is framing the ad as a pale substantiation of French high society. We wanted to show civilization the way it is today, without judging," she said. "Theres doubtlessly no pretty pickle with homosexuality in France today. That last observe is not clearly supported by factsfor exemplar, in 2007, the assortment SOS homophobie reported more than 1300 antipathy crimes in France. But all-inclusive, France has moved faster on gay rights than the U.S., with a 2003 hatred crimes law covering anti-gay fury and refinement. The U.S passed a animosity crimes law protecting LGBTs only fresh last year. France has also had polished unions since 1999, while of orbit the U.S. is unfixed more slowlysplendour-by-form, if at all.
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