THE SOPRANOS - GLAAD DECRIES AD'S DIRTY POOL

GLAAD DECRIES AD'S DIRTY POOL

It was one thing for the character played by Joseph R. Gannascoli to be beaten to death with pool cues and sodomized with one on The Sopranos after the mob learned he was gay; it was quite another for Gannascoli to endorse a Rockwell Billiards pool cue inscribed with the phrase "A Cue to Die For," the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation protested Monday. "It's highly inappropriate that what served as a very real example of the hateful violence the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community faces is now being used as a gimmick to sell a product," GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano said in a statement. "The insensitive inclusion of the pool cue in the 'To Die For' marketing theme betrays the legacy of The Sopranos character and is unacceptable." GLAAD is demanding that the words "A Cue to Die For" be removed from the product and that Rockwell Billiards and Gannascoli "apologize for using such a vulgar symbol of violence and anti-gay bigotry to make a profit."

14/08/2007