Banks have been getting a lot of stick...

[mylodon]

and not without reason, but I have to say that I'm impressed with the new Barclays ad for the personalised debit card. At least one same sex couple featured...

Comments

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

I like that. A very happy little ad.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Yes. I saw it on TV this morning and thought afterwards, "Oh. Those two blokes. Did I see what I thought I saw?"

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

They're adorable aren't they? :)

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

*nods* Very touching.

[julian-griffith.livejournal.com]

I saw it last weekend during Downton Abbey! (Yay sneaky ways of getting to iPlayer from the States.) I thought it was a very sweet ad.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Any chance of American companies being so brave?

[julian-griffith.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure that JC Penney, a department store, used same-sex couples along with others in their Mother's Day and Father's Day ads this year, and didn't back down when noisy religious groups made an outcry.

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/05/30/492610/jc-penney-features-real-life-same-sex-couple-in-fathers-day-ad/?mobile=nc

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Well done them!