Gays Shop At Crate & Barrel!!!

Somebody call One Million Moms, because two homosexual men are featured in the latest Crate & Barrel campaign, where they can be seen shamelessly flaunting their perversion all over their artfully staged fauxtique home. (Tipped by JMG reader Diane)

Gay Couple Takes Second Place in Crate & Barrel's $100,000 Wedding Contest

Gregory Jones and Jonathan Howard have finished in second place in Crate & Barrel's $100,000 Dream Wedding Contest. They and the other gay couples in the contest generated quite a lot of positive press for the marriage equality movement (as well as some internet nastiness, of course.) Today they write via email:

To those of you who stood alongside us, and helped make this happen, we thank you. We thank you for your hard work, determination, and repeated sacrificing of Facebook status updates to help us reach this extraordinary place. Through your efforts, you have helped unite a community fighting for a common goal: full federal equality, including the right for same-sex couples to marry nationwide. We never imagined that our attempt to win a wedding would become a social statement that gained national coverage. Thank you all for giving us the chance to represent our community which, in the end, showed us the true meaning of community. We are still speechless when we think about the last 48 sleepless hours of the contest, which were probably some of the most exciting hours of our lives; more than 7,000 of you voted for us at that time.

Gay Couple Competes In Wedding Contest

Mikey and Earl write to let us know they are competing in Crate & Barrel's "Ultimate Wedding Contest" whose winners will be chosen by an online poll. Their dream wedding:

I've thought long and hard about how to pull off the most spectacular gay wedding New York City has ever seen. If this dream comes true, (1) the celebration will kick off on the open-air terrace of Inside Park, a beautiful venue adjacent to St. Bart's Cathedral on Park Ave; (2) comedienne Kathy Griffin will warm up the crowd before we arrive by yellow cab; and (3) as we share our love with family and friends, Grammy Award-winning singer Michael Buble will perform his hit song "Everything" to commemorate our first dance. I get goosebumps just thinkin’ about it!

Vote at the above link.

UPDATE: There's another gay couple in the contest. Jonathan and Gregory:

The three key things for our wedding are simply friends, family, and fun. We want a simple, but elegant affair at an outdoor vineyard in the DC area with our family and friends from across the country. Our family and friends are very important to us and our dream day would not be complete unless we were surrounded by all of them. And we want all of these people to be able to celebrate our love for each other and enjoy a memorable occasion.