The social resistance to homosexuality in McCafe Taipei's advertising

  • Altobeli Lobodally Institut Teknologi dan Bisnis Kalbis
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Keywords: Advertising, Homosexuality, Social Resistance

Abstract

Advertising is not a tool to sell a product. The ideology that has been carried by the advertising creator is used to resist the common ideology. Homosexuality is
still thought of as a sexual deviation and a crime. This research’s purpose is to disassemble the homosexuality in the Taipei McCafe’s advertising. This
research is using popular culture, and Barthes’s analysis. From the second order of signification (denotation, connotation, and myth) it is shown that having
a gay son is a shame condition for a parent commonly. It is a hard situation for each parent to find out that his son loves a guy too. Through this study, the
researcher also found that homosexuals are part of the family whose existence must be accepted by parents. Homosexuals in this advertisement are
considered as people who can determine their right to choose their partners and can be accepted as part of the family. In the beginning, advertising is only a
tool to sell the product, but this situation shows that becoming gay is a common thing. Homosexuality is just the sexual preference. Homosexuality it is not a
sexual deviation. So, parent nowadays, has to accept their son’s sexual preference. From this advertising, the advertisers are trying to resist the ideology about refusing the homosexuality.

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2022-05-27
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Lobodally, A. (2022). The social resistance to homosexuality in McCafe Taipei’s advertising. Jurnal Komunikasi Profesional, 6(2), 109-118. Retrieved from https://ejournal.unitomo.ac.id/index.php/jkp/article/view/4482
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