Hallmark’s Valentine campaign features lesbian couple

http://youtu.be/Y6XGYifGseg Hallmark is featuring a same-sex couple as part of its new “Put Your Heart To Paper‘ campaign for Valentine’s Day. The series puts the spotlight on a several real-life couples, including Eugenia and Corinna, who have been together for two years. The clip sees the couple reminiscing about how they first met and discussing…

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Hallmark releases gay Father’s Day eCard

This Father’s Day, Hallmark is honoring children with two dads with a special eCard. Huffington Post reports that the eCard, created by transgender artist Kylie Summer Wu and titled  I’ll Take Two, depicts a young girl shopping for Father’s Day gifts, selecting two of each item before introducing her two fathers. The clip concludes with both fathers and…

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Rocco Shirts solves ‘gay apparel’ issues

CHICAGO — Greeting card company Hallmark’s recent snafu replacing the word ‘gay’ with the word ‘fun’ on a holiday sweater ornament has prompted Chicago-based Rocco Shirts to produce three holiday sweatshirts, featuring the traditional ‘gay’ apparel as well as sweatshirts with ‘straight’ and ‘bi’.  The original Christmas Carol of course featured the words “Don we now our gay…

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No ‘gay’ apparel in Hallmark’s 2013 keepsake ornaments

Hallmark has decided to re-write one of the lines of the traditional holiday carol “Deck the Halls.” The re-write appears on one of the company’s 2013 keepsake ornaments named “Holiday Sweater.” Splashed across the front of the ornament is the line, “Don we now our fun apparel,” clearly an intentional edit from the more familiar…

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