There hasn’t
been a tear-inducing television commercial for a phone company since
AT&T’s “Reach Out and Touch Someone” campaign. But now comes an ad packing
an emotional, personal coming
out story that is appearing on TV in, of all places, the devotedly
Roman Catholic country of the Philippines.
And people are
loving it.
“Welcome Change” is the name of
this campaign from Smart
Communications, and the commercial featuring a young gay man who struggles
with a Facebook friend
request from his father has been viewed more than 680-thousand times and
received an enormous percentage of likes and shares.
One viewer
commented: “Smart Communications, thank you for being on the right side of
history,” reported Gay
Star News, and the response from other viewers has been likewise
overwhelmingly positive.
That’s a good
sign in a nation where antigay Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao won election
to the senate with statements such as that gay
people were ‘worse than animals’.
Perhaps that’s
on the mind of the son in this ad, who finally accepts his dad’s request,
knowing he is in effect coming out to him with all the photographs of himself
in a same-sex relationship. He sends his father a text: “Dad, I’ve accepted
you.”
The response
from the father will likely give you goosebumps: “Me too, my son.”
Watch the ad
from YouTube, below:
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