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My speech: Trans+ History Week's first Parliamentary Reception
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Time for Sky to get its head out of the clouds
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Rae ♥️🦦
A celebration of Rachel Davies
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The struggle for true allyship in an industry that’s gone silent
As misinformation gets the green light from Meta, our industry is failing the queer community.
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Trans+ employees are not alone in bearing the burden of bigotry—it costs employers, too
As Fortune focuses on the most successful businesses led by queer people, here's what it’s like to exist as a transgender person in business today.
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Attitude: Labour has the potential to be the catalyst for change, but looks set to fail its first test
Opinion: The founder of Trans+ History Week, Marty Davies calls on people to hold Labour to account
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Campaign Column: A Queer View
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Campaign Magazine Column
A Queer View - monthly(ish) articles on LGBTQIA+ inclusion within marketing and advertising.
The struggle for true allyship in an industry that’s gone silent
As misinformation gets the green light from Meta, our industry is failing the queer community.
Will we see a return to rationality?
New data confirms the commercial case for LGBTQIA+ inclusive portrayals in advertising.
Dear media planner, queer media needs you
How can we make confident decisions to include queer media in our plans?
Great British Advertising?
When it’s done firefighting, what plans will Labour have for our sector?
From ancient scrolls to Outernet London, how trans visibility evolved over time
It’s important to showcase trans stories as a way to confront and dismantle prejudice.
Is there a queer sponsorship squeeze?
Backlash and boycotts risk reduced sector funding.
The gay Guinness ad that never ran
Learnings from a groundbreaking 30-year-old ad that almost didn’t see the light of day.
Media agencies and clients must put a stop to 'dirty attention'
A reckoning is coming for disinformation in the ad industry.
The winter of discontent for queer representation.
It's about time for a boom. This is how we get one.
Let's try for Bi
How can we take on the creative challenge of Bi+ representation?
The future is queer
Future vision for ad industry in the last printed edition
Transmasculine visibility and the joy of finally being seen
How to ensure true transmasc representation in advertising campaigns.
Sport for all? A look at Dylan Mulvaney's other brand deal
The way Nike handled transphobic abuse should be applauded.
Was this Pride Month a watershed moment for advertisers and disinformation?
The anti-trans hate continues to intensify and so does the scrutiny on brands to interrogate their role in the ecosystem of disinformation
The era of hollow LGBTQIA+ advocacy is over
In a new regular column, the joint chief executive of Outvertising will set out a platform and guide to hold the ad industry to account.
Is adspend funding an increase in LGBTQIA+ hate crime?
Being non-binary in adland
The one thing uniting all gender identities outside the binary is that – in the eyes of this pervasive social system – they are performing gender wrong.
How should brands work with UK’s Drag Race queens?
Ahead of the final episode of RuPaul's Drag Race UK season two, Outvertising asks: 'Who is going to front the next H&M campaign?'
More ad industry pieces
Fortune | Trans+ employees are not alone in bearing the burden of bigotry—it costs employers, too
As Fortune focuses on the most successful businesses led by queer people, here's what it’s like to exist as a transgender person in business today.
Videoweek | Do Homophobia and Transphobia Persist in the Advertising Industry?
The advertising industry has the unique ability, and responsibility, to promote tolerance through its work. But the sector has to start by looking inwardly, before it can enact meaningful change in wider society.
D&AD Annual 2023 | How our creativity must move us beyond ‘Love is Love’
Here, inspired by some 2023 D&AD award-winning work, Marty Davies (they/them) shares their thoughts on how the creative industries can help shape a better society for all LGBTQIA+ people.
Creativebrief BITE Voices | Braving backlash and tackling transphobia
Marty Davies and Stephanie Matthews share how the advertising industry can stand its ground to better support trans+ people and talent.
HuffPost | Trans+ People Are Under Attack. Here's What You Can Do To Help.
“We need dialogue, openness and strength to include all parts of each other."
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