If you haven’t yet heard about the L Word bus-shelter ad controversy in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, you can read up on it here (and actually see what all the fuss is about too). These ads have been removed due to pressure from New York State Senator Marty Golden (R). He is quoted saying the ads should not be what local school children should be subjected to at this bus stop as they go to and from school.

In an article in the March 18, 2005 Home Reporter, a local Bay Ridge paper, several people were asked this question by a reporter:

What are your thoughts on State Senator Marty Golden asking for the removal of promotional posters in Bay Ridge for the Showtime series “The L Word?”

One person’s response was I thought it was an ad for a modeling show. Another person commented I think if anything, it would incite people to be more accepting of homosexuality. It sure does seem like not everyone had a problem with there ads. Marty, was this really your personal problem?

Below are pictures of the front and back of a flyer I picked up from a sidewalk nearby the 77th Street bus shelter which was adorned with an L Word ad not so long ago. There wasn’t only one flyer on the ground. They were all over the streets. The flyer is for the No ID Bash being held tonight at a neighborhood bar & grill. The flyer has a woman in lingerie touching herself covered by the words No School Next Day on it. I find it hard to believe the people in Bay Ridge who are so worried about sexually suggestive material being viewed by their children have had nothing to say about these flyers all over the streets. Maybe they just didn’t see them… because I’m sure they wouldn’t approve of a sexually suggestive flyer for a bash targeting children (it is the NO ID Bash and it does say No School Next Day on it).

What is it that makes the L Word ad indecent while the No ID Bash Flyer sneaks under the “child-protection” neighborhood radar? Now, don’t go thinking the answer to that has anything to do with lesbians. John Quaglione, the senator’s district manager and press secretary, assures us that this has nothing to do with homosexuality. Homosexuality is the furthest thing from this complaint.