Ten companies to support, as per the AFA

Here's some fun news: the ever-selfless folks over at the gay-hating American Family Association have spent hundreds of manhours watching and logging television shows in order to provide us, the country's gays, with a list of the top ten gay-supporting advertisers.

The kids at the AFA came at the project with a discipline that bordered on scientific (the other side bordered on "fascist", but that's another story entirely). First, they determined what were to them the most gay-promoting shows. They included:

Ugly Betty
ER
Desperate House-Wives (their spelling)
The Simpsons
The Office
Grey's Anatomy
Brothers & Sisters
The Class

Funny -- while they claimed to have nabbed the list from GLAAD, that also happens to be a list of some of the most popular and critically lauded shows currently on the air (even The Class won a People's Choice Award). Maybe they mistook "gay supporting" for "quality". They even provide this analysis in their "results":

In each program monitored, homosexuality was promoted in a positive manner as a normal and accepted lifestyle. Some scenes included homosexuals kisses and bedrooms scenes. In instances where opposition to homosexuality was portrayed, the opposing character was publicly ridiculed or condemned by the other characters on the program.

They watched these homo-heavy shows (must have been torture to expose themselves to such well-written entertainment -- er, immoral content) and counted the number of ads that major companies ran during them. They then tallied the results and determined the top gay supporting companies -- in fact, they even gave handy lists of the companies' products and contact information for each, perhaps so that appreciative gays like ourselves can contact the companies and thank them for their support. Which I suggest we do -- the full details are below (because I'll be damned if I'm linking to their hateful site -- or actually, too late for that, right?).

Thanks, AFA! You sure saved me a lot of Googling!

1. Ford Motor Company
Chairman William Clay Ford, Jr.
P. O. Box 1899 Dearborn, MI 48121
Phone 313-322-3000
Fax: 313-845-7512
Toll Free: 1-800-392-3673
Toll Free: 800-555-5259
PRODUCTS: Ford cars and trucks, Mazda, Jaguar luxury cars, Lincoln luxury cars, Mercury cars and minivans, Volvo automobiles.

2. Toyota
President and CEO Yukitoshi Funo
Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
19001 S. Western Ave. Torrance, CA 90509
Phone: 310-468-4000
Fax: 310-468-7800
PRODUCTS: Camry, Corolla, Tacoma, Tundra, Lexus

3. AT&T Corporation
Chairman Edward Whitacre, Jr.
32 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10013-2412
Consumer Services
1-800-222-0300
PRODUCTS: Wireless and Internet service, Cingular, Blackjack phone, long distance phone service

4. Procter & Gamble The Procter & Gamble Company
Chairman Alan G. Lafley - lafley.ag@pg.com
1 Procter & Gamble Plaza Cincinnati, OH 45202
Business Office Number: 513-983-1100
FAX: 513-983-4381
PRODUCTS: Bounty, Clairol, Cover Girl, Gilette, Folger's, Downy and more.

5. Revlon Revlon, Inc.
President Jack Stahl
625 Madison Avenue New York, New York 10022
212-527-4000
Fax: 212-527-4995
PRODUCTS: Revlon branded beauty products.

6. Glaxo Smith Kline
CEO Dr Jean-Pierre Garnier
One Franklin Plaza PO Box 7929 Philadelphia PA 19101
Toll free: 888-825-5249
Phone: 215-751-4638
Fax: 919-315-3344
PRODUCTS: Abreva, Advair, Aquafresh, Boniva, Nicoderm, Nasonex.

7. Unilever Unilever US, Inc
700 Sylvan Avenue Englewood Cliffs NJ 07632
Phone: 201-894-2808
Fax: 201-871-8047
PRODUCTS: Degree, Dove, Slimfast, Snuggle Suave, Sunsilk.

8. Daimler Chrysler Corporation
President Dieter Zetsche
1000 Chrysler Drive Auburn Hills, MI 48326
Phone: 248-576-5741
Fax: 248-576-4742
PRODUCTS: Dodge, Mercedes, Jeep, Ram trucks

9. Verizon Communications
Ivan Seidenberg, Co-CEO Chairman Charles R. Lee
1095 Ave. of the Americas New York, NY 10036
Tel: (212) 395-2121
Fax: (212) 921-2971

10. The Quaker Oats Company
President Robert S. Morrison
321 N. Clark St. Chicago, IL 60610-4714
Phone: 312-222-7111
Fax: 312-222-8323
Consumer toll-free: 1-800-367-6287
PRODUCTS: Gatorade, cereals, oatmeal.

So be sure to run out and buy some Gatorade, Sunsilk, and a Dodge Ram today! Thanks to GoodAsYou.org for the tip!