Transport for London's biggest ever ad campaign

[dipsydoodle]

its on a 1000 buses here.

[xchrom]

1. ...

[dipsydoodle]

3. I actually got that from my sister in Australia an hour ago

which is funny considering I'm only 14 miles from central London - just don't go in too often so wouldn't have seen the buses.

I've now found a proper link :

Stonewall funds 1000 London bus adverts for equal marriage.

Gay rights charity Stonewall has announced a thousand London buses will carry its equality message in April during the government’s consultation on how to implement marriage for gay couples.

During this month, public transport in the capital will display the ‘Some People Are Gay. Get Over It!’ adverts with a link to Stonewall’s equal marriage campaign website.

The charity is asking Londoners and visitors to the capital to tweet pictures of the buses using the hashtag #equalmarriage, so its message is not confined to the city.

Ben Summerskill, Chief Executive of Stonewall said: “In recent months Britain has been subjected to vitriolic political campaigning from people who want to impose their 19th-century values on 21st-century society.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/04/03/stonewall-funds-1000-london-bus-adverts-for-equal-marriage/

[xchrom]

4. well thanks to both of you for the find! nt

[SamG]

2. Can one imagine this on buses in..

many American cities?

[William769]

5. Nice picture, thanks for sharing.

[Smilo]

6. Love it, love it, love it.

[pinto]

7. Great campaign piece. Simple, to the point, public, mobile, goes wherever the bus goes.

Clever...

[tjwmason]

8. I was in London over the week-end and saw a couple of them

My employer is affiliated with Stonewall and we've got a poster like that up in the employee lounge.

[dipsydoodle]

9. Anti-gay adverts pulled from bus campaign by Boris Johnson

London mayor steps in to stop buses carrying Christian group's ads that claim therapy can stop people being gay.

The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, intervened to prevent a Christian advertising campaign from promoting the idea that gay people can be converted to heterosexuality.

Just days before the posters were due to appear on buses in the capital, Johnson ordered his transport chiefs to pull the adverts booked by two conservative Anglican groups following outrage among gay campaigners and politicians saying that they were homophobic. The adverts were booked on behalf of the Core Issues Trust whose leader, Mike Davidson, believes "homoerotic behaviour is sinful".

His charity funds "reparative therapy" for gay Christians, which it claims can "develop their heterosexual potential". The campaign was also backed by Anglican Mainstream, a worldwide orthodox Anglican group whose supporters have equated homosexuality with alcoholism. The advert was due to say: "Not gay! Post-gay, ex-gay and proud. Get over it!"

Johnson, who contacted the Guardian to announce he was stopping the adverts within two hours of their contents becoming public, said: "London is one of the most tolerant cities in the world and intolerant of intolerance. It is clearly offensive to suggest that being gay is an illness that someone recovers from and I am not prepared to have that suggestion driven around London on our buses."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/12/anti-gay-adverts-boris-johnson