I was up at the Civic Centre on Friday and whilst waiting to see David Brown, the new mayor, I picked up a copy of the brochure produced by Haringey registry office entitled "Your Wedding or Civil Partnership in Haringey". That's good to see, I thought, a brochure which seems to reflect the new times we live in.
Once I looked inside though, I have to confess to being rather disappointed. Amidst the glossy full page pictures of straight couples, the brochure includes just three small (90 x 50mm) pictures of gay female couples, two of which include faces.
When it comes to male couples, there are four small pictures, but three of these are tightly zoomed in on hands only, and one is of a row of blurred row of buttonholes. Wot, no gay male faces? What editorial policy is at work here?
The extract I've attached includes all the non-advert pictures in the brochure. Take a look. I'm sure the producers of the brochure thought they were being very progressive by including pictures of gay couples at all, but is it me or does it smack of embarrassment about gay male couples?
I wonder how how people would feel if the pictures of the black couples in the brochure were equally coy and showed only clasped black hands?
Just a thought......
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To return to the point, pics are so cheap to licence these days that a different selection could have been made from the millions available. And why the odd advice on choosing a wedding dress? - except perhaps we have proved here that such advice could be necessary.
Slightly off topic but I saw these a few weeks back and it's a great little folk ditty. Can I nominate it to the Church please?
Searching for this week's post where someone's looking for a wedding photographer, I just stumbled acros a link to an old article entitled Will Photographing Same-Sex Ceremonies Hurt or Help Your Wedding Ph.... Interesting in the context of this discussion.
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