15 Ads That Changed The Way We Think About Gays And Lesbians

From:  Business Insider

2010

McDonald's, "Come as you are."

In the same year, McDonald's ran this ad in France, in which a teenager struggles to come out to his father. The company declined to run the ad in the U.S. Why? Because the company's COO, Don Thompson is a Christian, reported CBS News, noting he only allowed it to air in France because homosexuality is a "cultural norm" there.