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If You Think 'Pajama Boy' Looks 'Effeminate,' You Need to See How Obamacare Is Being Marketed to Actual Gays

Gym bunnies for health coverage!

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As Nick Gillespie noted this morning, some of the criticism of the horrible Obamacare enrollment ads featuring the young hipster in pajamas has some subtextual nonsense tied to perceptions of the sexual orientation and identity of the model.

It's particularly silly because nobody who has had any experience dealing with actual gay men would have picked that man to sell Obamacare. Here is how Obamacare is being sold to actual gay men:

The advertisement is by Out2Enroll, created by the Sellers Dorsey Foundation to promote the Affordable Care Act's benefits to the LGBT community.

Hat tip to gay (and occasionally NSFW) blog Towleroad.