FIVEAA Breakfast’s David & Will are questioning the need to rename the iconic Golden Gaytime ice-cream after an activist started a push to end what he calls a “double entendre”.
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According to Brian Mc who launched the petition earlier this month (which now has more than 900 signatures):
“As a part of the LGBTQIA+ community I believe my sexual identity is owned by me, not a brand and that the outdated meaning no longer applies. Isn’t it time for this double entendre to end? …
“Just to be a gay man, even in 2021 is still hard … we all still have a long way to go to be fully accepted as equals but if we see an area in life that’s not equal, and we are able to change it for the better, why wouldn’t you speak up?
“I’m not calling for the product to be cancelled, I’m calling for the product to remove Gay from its name.”
In response, ice-cream maker Streets says the Gaytime was released in Australia during 1959 when the word ‘gay’ had “not yet been applied to gender preference”:
“The origin of the ‘Gaytime’ name was and remains, related to having a joyous or happy time and is meant to capture the pleasure that comes with enjoying an ice cream.
“The ‘Gaytime’ name is not and never has intended to cause offence and this petition is the first that we have been made aware of.”
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