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1 week ago | 
wearequeeraf.com | Marty Davies
💡 This article is from our (award-winning) free weekly newsletter that helps you understand the LGBTQIA+ news and support queer creatives to change the media. Join 8,200+ curious queer readers every Saturday morning. May 6th this year is the 92nd anniversary of the Nazi raid on the world's first gender and sexuality clinic. It’s been three years since I wrote my first article for QueerAF about the raid - which was the genesis of Trans+ History Week. Its second iteration is just around the corner.
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2 months ago | 
campaignlive.co.uk | Marty Davies
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
campaignlive.co.uk | Marty Davies
Donald Trump won the US election popular vote and the electoral college in early November. A week later I unexpectedly lost someone I love very much. Grief has consumed me completely. This is the first piece I’ve written since. I’ve been struggling to know what to say and how to say it. So, I decided to just be honest and write something that reflects where the world seems to be: a state of crisis and metamorphosis.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
campaignlive.co.uk | Marty Davies
Last year, that Bud Light campaign caused fear to take hold across our industry. That familiar refrain rang out everywhere: "Go woke, go broke."We lost our heads. Brands pulled their campaigns or ran at the first sign of backlash. And the LGBTQIA+ community was left feeling that brand support was as shallow as an ashtray. In this column, I've lamented the subsequent queer erasure from creative work and seen just how prevalent this fear has become.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
uk.themedialeader.com | John Clarvis |Marty Davies
OpinionWe have discussed social identity and how parts of the media fuel conflict. In this final instalment, let’s look at what we can do to fight identity-threatening content. The difficulty with decoupling threatening content and commercial operations is that the very nature of our psychological and physical reaction to threat — and especially identity threat — creates a very easy and lucrative revenue stream.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
fortune.com | Marty Davies
Over the last year, we’ve seen businesses distancing themselves from the LGBTQIA+ community. There’s been a marked decline in activations during Pride season. We’ve also seen DEI budget cutbacks at Google, Meta, and more recently at Microsoft and Ford. The big players are making bigger mistakes—all based on poor evidence and fear. The reality is that leadership teams are failing to take account of the data. And that’s because“going woke”—or just opposing discrimination—is a competitive advantage.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
campaignlive.co.uk | Marty Davies
“PinkNews has been and continues to be committed to supporting and amplifying trans and non-binary voices. We’ve invested significantly in doing so over the past decade, publishing over 20,000 pieces of trans-inclusive content, representing an investment of well over £2m ($2.6m).”So says PinkNews, following a tough few weeks for the publisher in which it has faced unsubstantiated claims on social media about its advertisers’ views on trans-focused content.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
campaignlive.co.uk | Marty Davies
We’re a few weeks into a new government. And the question we’re all asking is: what exactly will it mean for us? Labour is failing its first test for the queer community with its support of the previous government’s puberty blockers ban, which I wrote about in Attitude magazine. But I’m also interested in what this new government means for our industry and Outvertising’s mission to make the industry completely LGBTQIA+ inclusive.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
campaignlive.co.uk | Marty Davies
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
attitude.co.uk | Marty Davies
We woke up to change on 5 July, but it’s already starting to feel hollow. The Labour manifesto promise was to bring about change and restore hope. The promise of a “national renewal”; where politics should “be driven by a sense of service to the country, not considerations of party or self-interest.” And they should be held to account to deliver on these things. It is uncontentious to say that the last government did not serve the LGBTQIA+ community well.
