Proving that the corporate behemoth has moved into the 21st century, Wal-Mart has just released a video featuring two gay men falling for each other after discovering a skillet in the retail giant. And the American Family Association has already lost its mind.
The video, titled Love Is In the Aisle: A dating show at Walmart features two gay men, Pat and Andy, set up on a blind date to go shopping at Wal-Mart. The two bicker and flirt until they decide they like each other after bonding over their shared love of an iron skillet. Given that the video depicts their relationship as sweet and healthy, the AFA has gone predictably berserk.
Tim Wildman, President of the AFA, sent out an immediate alert to the cabal’s members to encourage them to complain to Wal-Mart’s offices over the “offensive” and “pro-homosexual” video.
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“In a move that most Christians probably never expected to see,” Wildman writes, “retail giant Walmart has posted an online video that normalizes homosexual relationships. For most Christians and other traditionalists, the idea that marriage is between a man and a woman is sacred. We’ve seen many large corporations reject that in their marketing, but I honestly never thought Walmart would join the cultural revolution and reject the beliefs of its customer base.”
“It’s clear that Walmart is on the path of elevating homosexual relationships to the same level as the male-female model of marriage,” Wildman elaborates. “At least with a company like Amazon, we knew they were liberal from the outset. But this seems more like a betrayal from a well-known friend. Sam Walton is probably turning over in his grave.”
Wildman has also started a petition to have the video removed from Wal-Mart’s websites.
Check out the video below:
Love Is In The Aisle: A dating show at Walmart, ep. 2
Is grocery shopping at Walmart first date-worthy? We thought it’d be a good idea. And these two definitely learned how much it could really reveal about a person…
Posted by Walmart on Thursday, February 14, 2019
draven
Straight people always complaining about something. Gosh. They are very jealous.
@HarryB
Not only straight. All people
Billysees
It would have been more accurate to write —
Religious conservatives always complaining about the LGBT Community. Gosh…
TomG
Only the religious right who also seem to be jealous of loving relationships.
rogkristen
Really? Give it a f****** rest. If this was shown in Europe, no one would really care.
linx1240
So true!
leesanfran
Yep, only in Land of the Free & the Home of the Brave, the conservative right believes their rights are more important than everyone elses.
pharaon.em.joe
Ok so everyone instead of conplaining about AFA on Queerty’s website, please make sure you call Walmart and congratulate them. Queerty gave you a phone number. I already called! Now your turn 🙂
bowlingbutch
I tried calling. Complimented Wal Mart and the person I was talking with put me on hold and I looped back to the answering recording. So much for their customer service people progressing
scotshot
No employee of Walmart knows anything.
happyman
I called and talked with a very nice young lady who was helpful, courteous, and considerate. Thanks Wal-Mart!
Saps48
I think the video is on Wal-Mart’s FaceBook page.
(The phone number in the article goes to their online shopping, who don’t know anything about it.)
Call Walmart Customer Service at 1-800-925-6278 (1-800-WALMART) and tell them. The guy who I spoke to had seen the video and would pass my positive comments along…
OzJosh
Hmmm. It’s a pity the advertisement (let’s call it what it is) isn’t better. Immediately going for a stereotypically comic queen (not to mention extremely annoying) seems more like parody than support to me. Maybe Americans regard this is progress in Walmart World. But I wouldn’t be rushing to congratulate them.
Sanjo
The queen part didn’t bother me as much but he was extremely annoying. He didn’t seem “fun” at all, except maybe thinking he was holding a squash.
startenout
Lord, yes. Why not choose someone boring, straight acting and not funny at all for the video? I mean please don’t show the world that some of us are actually snarky and not butch. Maybe they should do a hundred gay themed commercials until every single complaining gay is satisfied? That would be awesome. I mean except that someone gay would complain about every single one. “Why wasn’t the commercial a lesbian and her gender fluid FTM life partner?!”
offcell
Umm, that stereotypical queen is Pat Regan from the podcast, Seek Treatment! If you’re getting hung up on Wal-Mart casting queens being themselves for a commercial/show, seek treatment. Kthxbye!
Maxine
Excellent and very tasteful video. We have to acknowledge that it doesn’t matter what, we will always have AFA complaining about us. Let it pass and that somehow it will diffuse them completely for the lack of audience. Trying to change their mentality is futile and lose of energy. We need that energy as we keep moving up and forward…..
linx1240
Aren’t there more important concerns in this country right now? Like an incompetent moron in the White House!
AFA needs to get over themselves,I wonder how many members are Closet Cases!
nm4047
From the (free) publicity the AFA has inadvertently created a collective wet dream for the advertising mob that created this. I just assumed nobody watched adverts with all the hype about netflix etc, it’s easier than ever to ignore advertising.
moorebd2001
OK…botttom line…Andy is cute…very…
Pat…sounds like a big queen…
startenout
As do you. So?
MISTERJETT
what are they so afraid of?
scotshot
AFA has already lost this war along with other hate groups, there are dozens of LGBTQ in commercials.
fur_hunter
I live outside the US and cannot call 800 numbers. Is there a local area code I can call instead? Would like to call and tell upper management thank you.
Gary Q VV
This video is adorable. It’s so typical for a homophobic group to be fearful of any thing gay. The Wal-mart video is tasteful, entertaining, engaging, and that’s what really frightens the AFA (and others).
pabs509
AFA is squawking about Wal-Mart no longer supporting “traditional” marriage, but this ad says absolutely nothing about marriage . . .
Darrellx
It’s cute America! Deal with it!
brent
I just talked to Walmart customer service and they were very pleased to here from me. The lady said they had received a lot of not only negative but hateful comments. This is one of those times, that regardless.of what you think of Walmart, it’s time to support them.
Curtispsf
I, too, just called Walmart. I told them that as a father of a gay son, it was uplifting to see Walmart supporting LGBTQ relationships. The person I spoke with was very appreciative of my comments.
So Queerty readers, here is the chance to balance the hate of the right with LOVE. It matters. It will take 5 minutes of your time.
Jack Meoff
OK so we are congratulating Walmart for dragging themselves into about the mid-1990s with that ad. Progress I guess but still a ways to go.
Dashing Partycrasher
While I appreciate Walmart’s attempt at diversity, I hope that in their future videos, they can move beyond the usual tired gay tropes. Plus, who in their right mind would have a first date at a Walmart? Even coffee at a Starbucks inside a Target is a step up from that! lol
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I always take solace in the fact that these hate-filled smcubag bigots think they’re going to be greeted at the pearly Gates by saying Peter with open arms instead they’re going to be told that their one way ticket to Hell has been procured processed and punched and are destined to spend eternity in the bowels of the dark corner of hell for the hateful bigoted miserable way they live their lives.,…..
gaydruid
“offensive” and “pro-homosexual” video.
Who do AFA think they are to throw around such terms ?
There’s nothing offensive about been alive and Well and going shopping
LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE
also people of the LGBT bent are way to Fabulous to be Normalized! Diversity is what life is all about ya can’t be homophobic going into the 2020s ????????????????
itzallan
The humor in this is that this really has nothing to do with Walmart embracing “the gay lifestyle”, which is how the AFA is interpreting it. The fact that Walmart made such a video is yet another indicator of how attitudes have been changing within the retail sector out of necessity. I’m sure they, with all their marketing wisdom, anticipated the blow-back they’d receive from rabid conservative groups like the AFA; but what they, and other big retailers, know about the growing positive prevailing attitude toward same sex couples evidently took precedence over the anticipated blow-back. They know that conservatives will continue shopping at Walmart because of the low prices, so Walmart’s aim is to appeal to people who may typically not shop there. Anyway, it’s all about expanding the brand’s image to appeal to a broader demographics. They actually have to do that to compete with online retailers like Amazon to survive in an evolving world.
Billysees
Very good comment, especially —
‘Anyway, it’s all about expanding the brand’s image to appeal to a broader demographics.’
draven
White affluent middle income Americans always find something to complain about they are never happy and they’re very jealous of the gay agenda I’m just saying and I’m white or black …..This comment is actually suppose to make you think or laugh lol
draven
Most true real bonafide black or people of color homosexual men and women carry themselves with respect do they get respect in the United States of America. We were born here. Especially those born 1958-1980. Great gay people. Let’s call it Soul Train the Hippest trip in America. Plus most gays of color in America 45-70 years old don’t take no crap! As far as out of the country. Just don’t go. Stay my black “A”at home and shop on the internet! Period .
draven
“So they get respect “ excuse typo in my last comment post please.
jcoberkrom
I had to go to the CNSNews website to see the video. Don’t know why it doesn’t work on Queerty.
Anyway the vitriol of these “christians” is amazing. Why is it that Walmart is the one that is promoting love?
WWJD
jamesintoronto
I will never understand why these groups get so upset about gay content in commercials or tv shows but they will blissfully watch The Bachelor. Seriously, they will watch a show that has a guy vying for the hearts of random women that completely mocks the so-called sanctity of marriage and yet, show two people of the same sex who are in love and that disgusts them. Go figure.
DCguy
Notice that the Anti-LGBT hate group didn’t call for a boycott of Walmart like they usually do with businesses? They knew their members would NEVER go for that!
Terrycloth
Seems.like they puposely made one more effiminate or gayer than.the other .shopping for body wash and pans ? I suppose if they were more butch they would be looking at tools or motor oils..lol
rbernard
First – This cute harmless commercial is funny and let’s give Wal-Mart a high-5 and a pat on the back for sponsoring it.
Second – Whatever puts the American Family Association’s panties in a bunch, those snooty ignorant religious bigots based in Tupelo, Mississippi, must be all goodness and I am for it.
JennyMcPike
I’d like to think Sam Walton is nodding his heading and saying (Gia Gunn voice) “ABSO-LOOOOOTLY!!!”
Giuseppe
Andy is cute, Pat has the MOST annoying voice EVER!
tomtedbear
I called Walmart Customer Service at 1-800-925-6278 (1-800-WALMART). I’m pretty sure I chose to press 2 twice and spoke to a nice guy who actually got a bit choked up when he realized I was calling with a compliment.
Shadeaux
They both like Little Debbies Oatmeal Cream Pies so they’re soulmates.
ShowMeGuy
A blind date at Walmart. Just say NO.
ShowMeGuy
As a former Walmart associate who led my store to become the primary corporate sponsor of my city’s LGBT Pridefest each year……..I found the “commercial” cringe worthy and blatantly stereotypical.
BUT, at least they tried.
Two steps forward, one step back….is still one step forward.