A casting call
credited to Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada proposed
equating same-sex kissing with drunk driving—and
incest. MADD insists it wasn’t their doing.
What is the truth?
I wrote an
article titled “Why I’m Mad at
MADD” for The Los Angeles Independent just
before Memorial Day weekend. It went up online on their
Web site (laindependent.com) and was on newsstands the
following week, in their June 8 issue. There was
an overwhelming response since I included info on
whom to contact at MADD Canada and at the Screen Actors
Guild. I received many e-mails and I did
additional research, which revealed a lot. Many
Web sites and blogs picked up my article also, and there
was a lot of debate online and in e-mails.
Was it a hoax, a rumor, or the truth?
Here’s the original article and an update below:
It’s hard
to understand that it is 2006 and that our world’s
awareness at times can seem enlightened and at other
times shockingly offensive and archaic.
I stumbled across
a casting notice for a Public Service Announcement for
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers Canada. This is what I read:
“Casting
Notice: GUYS WILLING TO KISS ANOTHER GUY, 18 to 21, all
ethnicities but leaning towards Caucasian. Everyone must be
willing to kiss another guy passionately for about 10
seconds. Everyone will have to make out at the
callbacks. They should seem like very regular guys. They
should seem very hetero, so it is unexpected to see the guys
making out. BASIC SCENARIO: Three friends completely
stoned out of their minds sit in a car vegging out.
The two guys in the front seat begin making out.
“After a
few moments they pull away from each other, and one says:
‘Wait a minute...we’re not gay.’
A superimposed image comes up on the screen that says:
‘DRUGS SLOW DOWN YOUR REACTION TIME.’ Then
another superimposed image comes up on the screen:
‘IF YOU’RE HIGH YOU CAN’T
DRIVE.’ Then cut to the guy in the back seat who
says: ‘Not that there’s anything wrong
with that…and like, aren’t you guys
brothers?’ ”
End of PSA.
So let me get
this straight, no pun intended: MADD has hired an ad agency
to come up with a cutting-edge new PSA to stop people from
drinking or doing drugs and driving. And,
coincidentally, making out with someone of the same
sex now infers that homosexuality is just as bad as being
drunk or high on drugs and being in a car driving? And
also that this leads to incest too?
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Cleary is an actor, writer, and comic at the World Famous
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