I thought gay people came in six packs

Posted on March 17, 2005 by Gene

I reprint this item in its entirety (via Queer Day) because there’s really nothing more I can add to it to make it any funnier.

Move over Tinky Winky and SpongeBob SquarePants. When department store Marshall Field’s employed a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs theme for its 2004 holiday festivities, the Chicago-born retailer received some complaints that it was promoting gayness, an executive said recently. The “concerned citizens” divined that there was a “hidden gay agenda” in Field’s theme “because seven men were living together,” Gregory Clark, vice president of creative services for Field’s in Minneapolis, recounted last month at a Retail Advertising & Marketing Association conference in Chicago.