#BoycottHallmark trends on Twitter after Hallmark Network caved to anti-LGBTQ group
Source: Raw Story
The Hallmark Channel is facing a public boycott after caving to an anti-LGBTQ group that demanded the network not show an ad showing two women marrying each other.
The Hallmark Channel pulled four TV ads featuring brides kissing each other on Thursday after a targeted campaign by a conservative group, The New York Times reported Saturday.
Asked to explain why the ads had been rejected, an employee of Hallmarks parent company said the channel did not accept ads that are deemed controversial, according to an email exchange shared with The New York Times. A spokesman for Hallmark said the womens public displays of affection violated the channels policies, but he declined to comment on why a nearly identical ad featuring a bride and groom kissing was not rejected, the newspaper reported.
The series of six ads, for the wedding planning website Zola, first appeared on the Hallmark Channel on Dec. 2. The ads, which feature several configurations of couples, all offer variations on the same concept: While standing at the altar, couples ponder whether guests would have arrived on time and bought them better gifts if only they had created a custom wedding website with Zola, The Times explained.
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LonePirate
(13,386 posts)The channel makes dozens of new romantic Christmas movies every year and has for several years. I welcome a fact check here but out of all these movies, which now number three digits, none of them have ever featured an LGBT couple at the center of the plot.
Liberalhammer
(576 posts)As well.
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)Timid boldness never works.
FarPoint
(12,207 posts)It's not an issue now.
lark
(22,993 posts)I will not be watching that channel one time this Christmas. Shove it Hallmark.
FarPoint
(12,207 posts)Or...is that the message you take from the deletion of the ads?
lark
(22,993 posts)They were sending a loud message that progressives, LBGTQ people and their family and friends are not a valued part of their target audience. Cool, got it and acting accordingly.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Hallmarks advertisers do not want you to buy their products and services.
lark
(22,993 posts)They might not like "my" kind - mother of gay son, volunteer for Florida Democrats, progressive - but they would sure like my $$ - if they could get it and keep up their hate filled ways.
FarPoint
(12,207 posts)actually....were you really a regular viewer of that channel? I know I am not...So, we know they have a more " conservative base".......I prefer advertising on channels that are open minded....verses triggering outrage, confusion or intolerance by the viewership that voice their discomfort.....we can't force it as this only increases alienation of being open minded....that is just my thoughts...
lark
(22,993 posts)No, I normally don't watch this channel, but every year prior to this, I allowed myself 2 Christmas shows every year, my yearly taste of schmaltz. Now I won't watch any shows on that channel. There's another channel that's playing Christmas themed shows and I might give it a taste test?
ck4829
(34,969 posts)OneMillionMoms doesn't get to be the sole authority on what's an issue and what's not an issue... even though it would really like to be.
kimbutgar
(20,871 posts)It is just a bogus site run by some guy. That said shame on Hallmark for caving.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)that the christianistas are NOT the majority of Americans ? I am so fed up with hearing that some evangelical pastor such-and-such or Bob and Betty Bigot are offended by this or that. If you don't like something - don't watch/read/listen/support/patronize etc.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,468 posts)Too soap operaish for me in a homongeneous way.
Give me Mr.Robot on USA Network , where Elliott's computer hacker sister, Darlene, has the hots for an FBI agent....played by Meryl Streep's daughter, Grace Gummer.
By the way, Mr. Robot is SUPERB. The final season has 2 more episodes left...
Resist160
(18 posts)Is anyone watching the Dolly Parton Series on Netflix, "Heartstrings?" "Two Doors Down," is about a gay son from the South and how his mother is against gay people. Then she finds out her own son is gay. Beautifully done. I cried. I highly recommend it. The mother in the show, her acting is really good though. "Crackerjack" episode, one of the girlfriends in the show is gay. She learns early on in life she likes girls. She kisses her partner goodbye in the series. And in the end, she tells her girlfriends that she and her partner are only to try for a baby.
I've always been a Dolly Parton fan. I couldn't wait until I watched it. But before I did, my nephew's wife (who is a Conservative) highly recommended the series to me. I still can't believe she watched the gay son episode.
I love this series. Dolly Parton is the executive producer.
Skittles
(152,963 posts)that's....different than I imagined. I love Dolly (who doesn't?) but figured it would be tame country schlock.
Welcome to DU, Resist160
efhmc
(14,709 posts)hashtag certain things. Going there now. Thanks for the info.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)The stories predictable.
MH1
(17,537 posts)But hopefully word gets around where it needs to.
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,197 posts)Rebl2
(13,301 posts)Home and Family has two men as regular contributors who are gay. One also talks about his husband and their adopted children, so dont tell me they hate gay people. Also if you have ever GONE to a Hallmark store you would know they have cards for same sex couples including weddings. I do agree they should allow the commercials to run. Those folks who complained about the commercials just use your remote and change the damn channel.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)For YEARS I have refuses to buy Hallmark greeting cards, mostly because of price... but other choices they've made with regard to their choices regarding cards for same-sex relationships, marriage, anniversary, etc. It's all rather perfunctory and generic.
Rebl2
(13,301 posts)a lot of their cards and others are so over the top sugary sweet they make my teeth hurt. I like their cards that I can write my own message, which they have a lot of any more.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... years ago, I purchased a Hallmark Greeting Card Software that allows me to customize and print (or just print) cards from thousands of different designs and themes and occasions. It's a quirky little program (they've tried to make it SO simple that it's actually difficult to use at times) but the results make the effort worthwhile.
I've more than recovered the investment of the original cost of the software.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)ashredux
(2,593 posts)Mush TV
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)The Hallmark Channel is 1950's TV, white, bland, and a sweetness that rots the hardest of teeth.
Karma13612
(4,527 posts)On their facebook page. In addition to their cable channel, they also sell greeting cards which was their initial business. I can easily give them no business what so ever.
I gave up VW automobiles due to their auto emissions snow job/corruption.
I can give up Hallmark channel, and buy cards from different card companies quite easily.
Yes, I do like watching the odd chickflick tear jerker but can find that genre on Netfllix.
This is 2019, why are we still having these discussions!?
treestar
(82,383 posts)of majority? Of their viewers? Did they even think before caving?
MustLoveBeagles
(11,563 posts)FarPoint
(12,207 posts)I am grateful to the voice of Ellen and Mayor Pete...they clarified the concern and Hallmark understood....