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Everyone from Hilary Newsom to Bevan Duffy to San Francisco treasure/icon Joy Bianchi, above, participated in the NOH8 photo campaign, a campaign to help repeal Prop 8. The campaign involves people with varying amounts of fame (some more than others) wearing white shirts and electric tape over their mouths. But the photos, shot by Adam Bouska, are actually quite impressive, very much so. Check them out.
For up-to-date information on Prop 8 and the fight for same-sex marriage, please visit Stop8.org. Also, check out this more organic No on 8 gallery.
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I can identify three of those people. I don't know what that fact implies but I felt the need to share anyway.
I recognize two of them! Which I'm sure is good enough for second place!
Donna Sachet and Bevan Dufty
The third is Joy Bianchi whom I "know" only because bloggers seems to love her (but I don't know if it's sincere or ironic love)
it's sincere. she's amazing.
Us hoi polloi don't get invited to your parties, Brock
i don't get invited to these parties, actually. do i get invited and attend fabulous parties? hell yes. but i do not get invited to these kinds of parties. alas.
we know Brock and Spots love dishing about this stuff. The rest of us Muni-ridin', Zeitgeist-drinkin' folk...well, we don't spend much time talking about Joy Bianchi, fabulous as she may be.
Wait, now I recognize four since we added the chick in the cage.
And by "recognize", I mean "have heard of on SFist".
Very Gap ad. When the good folks of Fresno get a load of these purdy pictures they will absolutely and completely change their minds on the issue of gay marriage. I just know it. It's like magic or something.
I bet you if we got Rascal Flatts to do a set of those ads, California voters would be willing to legalize male assfucking in church.
They excoriated the Dixie Chicks for a relatively benign sentiment; it's more likely you'd see a pile of burning Rascal Flatts records with the Flatts themselves atop of.
You're probably right.
Which would make it even more worth it!
"Y'know Lurlene, turns out after all this that Geoff Callan is FOR The Gays being allowed to marry n'all...and y'know he has a vintage camera and that there hat...let's rethink our position on this civil rights issue, darlin'."
I guess "notable" must be a relative term because with the exception of Bevan Dufty, I have no idea who any of those people are.
Who are these people? I only knew of Bevan Dufty as well.
Is there some magazine I should subscribe to catch up on the locals?
Still no sign of any gayness .. when are these "pro-gay marriage" advertisements going to come out of the closet?
A vanity project featuring a bunch of clique-y SF socialites and their chosen minions in the arts and culinary world (I assume that's who they are...seriously, who the hell ARE these people?!?)--yes, this will change a lot of minds.
"Let us pat you on the back, Hero Citizen."
Although I guess everyone and their mother here thought the same.
Now maybe we can get to the business of identifying these notables.
I know who two of these people are. Is it bad then when I tried to Google a few others I could find nothing on them? That alone I think should make them "notable."
Well, now at least they are notable for being in this fantastically awful campaign for Adam Bouska Cosmetics.
They do a shitty job on arm hair, as evidenced by Donna Sachet.
She does a good job up top, you'd think she'd want to avoid the Merchant Marine look on her forearms.
Seriously. This is an ad for Adam Bouska and not much else.
I'm happy not to know any of these people.
I have to agree: I don't know the lion's share of these people.
Moreover, the whole "tape over the mouth" has been overdone, and it just doesn't seem apt for this exact situation. Maybe ringless hands? Fake engagement announcements? Something that speaks to the issue, please!
Wouldn't it be good strategy for the no h8 folk to seem a bit less 'hip' and 'urbane?'
Don't "they" already hate "us" for being cooler than they are?
I want an advert with a middle-aged lesbian couple walking their dog, or an elderly affable gay couple gardening in their suburban home. Think of those stupid "touch of cotton" ads from back in the day. Something like that would work.
I recognized Jamie Lauren and Bevan Dufty.
Every photo of Joy Bianchi gives me nightmares for weeks on end.
Great ad! I'm sure there will be a Pottery Barn opening up in the Central Valley any day now.
...how exactly do these photos relate to Prop 8? Prop 8 isn't 'silencing' anyone-- and the best metaphor that I could draw would be that it prevents you from saying 'I do'-- so a shot of two people trying to get married but being unable to say 'I do' would seem to be the best imagery- not heavily photoshopped white-background made-up people. Right?
Not to be all blog comment hater, but 'impressive' isn't the word I would use- 'cliche high school photag class project on oppression' is more like it.
I recognize two. Frank Chu or Marian and Vivian Brown would be local notables. If Craig Lipton isn't an actor from True Blood, then he should rethink that.
I think they're interesting photos, and I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm not sure how effective of a marketing tool they are. If we SF snobbish elites don't know who most of these people are, how are these photos going to forward the cause in the parts of CA that need persuading?
I might google some of these names to see who they are (some are quite attractive...ahem), but that might have been the point all along.
Enough with the Photoshop already! Real people shouldn't look like mannequins.
seriously.
they look like high definition video game characters.