Glad you liked Justin! I hope the people from Exodus … well… I hope they read it and realize who silly their ad campaign is. But… what can I say, they put the ‘mental’ in ‘fundamentalist’.

You rule Justin! I just read a summary of the quarrel at gay.com:
http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2006/03/11/1

Congrats on a BRILLIANT idea. Simple, but way beyond simplicity once you view it and get the way it plays.

Don’t let them rag ya into doing anything (I wish I had a legal background, but I don’t).

Check out worth1000.com where they rip whole movie ads and posters and MANY other copyrighted images.

Sorry to hear they contacted you in this way, too.

Stuffy. Weird. Stifling. You name it. I could understand people trying to stop people from hurting one another.

I also don’t know why they don’t object to what the birds are doing in the trees or the animals in the forests.

Yeah, well.

Jerry in Pennsylvania

ps — i read about this billboard at “planetout” dot com — did you know they were covering this story as a news item ?

keep smilin’

Too bad Exodus didn’t realize that they would have been better off keeping their months shut regarding the parodies. They are going to be all over the place, and they’ll spend a fortune sending out cease and desist orders. Poor bastards (Exodus heirarchy, not the people who go there:-)

thats a great image from zortnac, keep us updated on this story, we support you

Thanks for all the support!

The only problem is, someone brought to my attention that “Gay? Unhappy?” might be more accurately described as an oxymoron—but I’m undecided. Do the grammar mavens lurking out there care to comment?

to be gay and unhappy at the same time would be a contradiction. An oxymoron is a phrase or expression that expresses irony intentionally by exposing the contradictory elements of what it is describing, i.e. bittersweet, etc. Gay? Unhappy? is neither phrase or expression nor intentional irony (on the part of Exodus). thanks for asking.

Phew, that’s what I thought after looking into oxymorons more closely. Thanks for the confirmation. And your seven minute response time. Yay blogosphere!

I’m on your side.

Excellent all around. I am posting your original work of art on my blog; it looked like you gave permission but if not, just let me know and I’ll remove it. After all, you really do have copyright! I’ve also posted to this page. Great blog, by the way.

Subversive Librarian, please do so, subvert!

Justin, you rock.

Hey! Good luck with everything. I hope you don’t mind that I am going to put this up on my blog too. It sounds like they are going to have to sue quite a few of us–what are the chances we can bankrupt them? :)

It’s up on my blog for over a week now. Stick it to them!

Double thumbs up

Justin,
I found out about you on 365Gay…I LOVE IT…keep up the good work. As a Out gay Christian I try hard to love even those self-loathing morons!

Justin,

Bless you, friend!

I live in Orlando, Florida, the home base of this horrible organization of Exodus International. Occasionally, I have to be forced to drive past these hateful, bigoted, and biased billboards. Each time, I feel so full of anger to be subjected to the ridicule of people who have absolutely no business going out of their way to hurt others. Now, I feel a release of this anger seeing your blog parodies. You are AWESOME!

I think we all need to be able to take a joke, but after seeing the recent parodies of “Brokeback Mountain” played over and over, to the point of nauseum, it is refreshing to see a parody played upon an organization who is indeed hateful and hurtful to a group of people who are perfectly happy being who they are.

I think you (we) should invest and put up billboards near the Exodus boards that are like the images you have on your blog. I’ll be the first to donate to a legitimate fund to see them up. And, may I suggest that they go up first in my home town, and Exodus headquarters, Orlando, Florida.

You ROCK!