Gay app Hornet erects billboard outside GOP debate
The billboard was a tongue-in-cheek way to keep LGBT issues at the forefront of the GOP debates
While the Republican presidential debate was (perhaps thankfully) devoid of any LGBT issues, outside the Milwaukee Theatre it was a different story. That’s in part thanks to gay dating app Hornet, who erected a giant billboard playfully referencing the debate.
It features a unicorn messaging an elephant with suspiciously Trump-like hair, asking “Into?” with the elephant responding “Open to debate…” A text message at the edge of the image states: “I have so many fabulous friends.”
With all the elephants in town that’s one busy unicorn #GOPDebate #Milwaukee #gay #LoveWins pic.twitter.com/FhSMLWsZyC
— Hornet App (@HornetApp) November 10, 2015
The text is a direct reference to a statement Trump made in 2011 to the New York Times, asserting his opposition to same-sex marriage: “I am a traditionalist. I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist.”
Hornet’s creators devised the billboard as a tongue-in-cheek way to keep LGBT issues at the forefront of the GOP debates — they’ve previously been mentioned only when candidates disparaged marriage equality or transgender issues.
“We wanted to inject some humor and poke fun at the race,” a Hornet spokesman told Newsweek. “For most gay men around the world, they don’t enjoy full equality, so it is important that at a debate like this we interject ourselves into politics even if the candidates aren’t talking about our issues.”
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