U.S. Tourism Commercial Is All-Inclusive

Published by Bobby Laurie | 0 comments

It’s Friday, so I figured I might take a minute to post a quick little opinion piece.

In the fight for equal rights, marriage being at the forefront in recent years, here in the United States I honestly haven’t been involved or paying much attention. Sure, I believe everyone should be treated equally and we should all have the same rights. If you tell a hospital that John Doe is your family, then John Doe should be permitted in your room. If you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, that’s your choice. No one elses.

The debate has been going on for a while and for ever step forward there seems to be a step back {Prop 8 in California for example}. However, BrandUSA, a company which is partnering with the government to help drive international tourists to the United States released a video titled “Land of Dreams” which is currently airing on TV stations in Canada, Japan and the U.K. This commercial shows various points of interests around the U.S. and also happens to show a gay couple vacationing.

Now, in this “Land of Dreams” that we call the United States, where equality is, well, nothing but a dream at the moment, some states accept and recognize couples and some are fighting tooth and nail to ensure that equal rights are never realized, and some Presidential candidates feel its “okay” to fire their staffers merely because they’re gay. But, yet, we’re asking the travelers of the world to come here.

With that said, we have made many strides. Marriage is legal in a few states, don’t ask don’t tell no longer exists, and acceptance is on the rise. Almost all TV shows now-a-days have an openly gay character and the idea that being gay is something “wrong” is slowly slipping away.

Hopefully, this video will be another push in the right direction. We’re telling all of the travelers of the world to visit the United States because its the ‘land of dreams’ — but maybe it’s time to stop dreaming and make change more of a reality. I think this video is a step in that direction. As a nation, we’re telling the world we’re on the road to doing just that.

Check out the video by clicking here.