Comments on: No Wedding Rings for Hyatt?

By: EyeShield21

EyeShield21 — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:47:16 +0000

What is that for? A wedding ring for same sexes? I just disagree with it. Even though I can do nothing about it. Still, I disagree with marrying the same sex.

By: Ben Finzel

Ben Finzel — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:47:35 +0000

Julia, FH Out Front is part of Fleishman-Hillard, which is one of about 200 companies owned by Omnicom. I can only speak with knowledge about Fleishman-Hillard, where we believe in the importance of gay and lesbian communications and will continue to provide counsel to clients on gay and lesbian communications issues. If you want to know more about Fleishman-Hillard’s point of view and the ways we counsel clients, we encourage you to read any one of the more than 400 posts on this blog.
Ben Finzel

By: Julia Gefford

Julia Gefford — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:29:32 +0000

What is Omnicom’s position in relation to homophobic advertising?
I saw the Snickers ads and your rather limp responses to them.
Omnicom owns you.
To me your entire “gay and lesbian communications Practice Group” stinks of hypocrisy:
http://adage.com/garfield/post?article_id=129767
That letter states:
“How could you be so insensitive, how could you be so shallow, and how could you be so mean?
This letter is to you, but it is equally to your colleagues throughout the industry. Are you so bereft, of ideas and simple humanity, that you must be reduced to stereotyping and bullying? That you must identify an “other” to ridicule, or worse? That you must build a brand on the backs of people who have harmed no one save for challenging a high-school locker-room standard of masculinity?”
FHOutfront is a subsidiary of Omnicom — a sad homophobic company that you are well and truly trapped under.
Your response?
Julia