Gay Group Gets A Taste Of The COC
The Canadian Olympic Committee has decided to drop its opposition for a gay men’s chat line who the COC accused of using a logo that resembled Olympic sporting event symbols:
Interactive Male, a Vancouver-based company that calls itself North America’s largest chat line for gay and bisexual men, had been battling with the COC since March 2005 over its application with the Canadian Trademark Office.
The COC had argued the chat line’s logo resembled Olympic sporting event symbols used in the 1970s.
Chris Rudge, the COC’s chief executive officer, said the case began several years ago and was “one of these things that slips between the cracks.”
Rudge said the logo dispute wasn’t on the COC’s radar.
“This occurred three or four years ago,” he said. “There is a process in place where our counsel, on our behalf, scrutinizes images that are being registered.
“There are some broad-based instructions to deal with those things. I assume something slipped between the cracks in that process.”
Interactive Male issued a press release Tuesday saying they were prepared to fight the COC over use of the logo.
At first I thought the gay group was being a little hard on the COC, but after reading this, I see that the COC went soft and didn’t try to pound the gay men. It seems the gay men had the COC where it wanted it, and although it sucks to be the COC, at least the COC could satisfy them. Sure, the COC believes that this issued *slipped between the cracks*, but in the minds of the gay men, the COC was always on their lips.
The COC didn’t try to be bigger than it was, and when it showed it was actually quite small, the gay men blew the COC away. It only proves that gay men sure know their COC. The COC couldn’t rise to the occasion, the gay men grabbed the COC and shook it, and finally the COC erupted, filling the gay men with happiness.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Hmm. Habs’ jerseys in a post about a lavender chat site.
You wouldn’t be a Leafs fan, would you?
(Not that there’s anything wrong with that ….)
July 7th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
As a long time (former)Canadiens fan, I know damned well this travesty must have been posted by a Leafs fan!
It’s makes my heart sing, to see somebody make the bullying bastards at COC back down! These assholes have made every business in the Lower Mainland with the word “Olympic” in the title, change it, even if they were in business years before Vancouver ever got the Olympics.
One woman in Coquitlam had a cleaning business, dated back to the late 90’s, and she had to change it, regardless of customer recognition of her business name. The Olympics has pushed and bullied ordinary people and businesses like a bunch of gangsters. Ask anyone in Vancouver about Cambie Street merchants, and the Athletes Village, etc.
The show will last only two weeks next year, but in B.C., we’ll be left with the unpleasant memories for years and years, as we try to pay for it.
Bravo to the Gay Chat Line people.
July 8th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Funny… Years ago a co-worker asked me to pull up the Red Wings website so he could look at a schedule or something. Being the consumate smartass I typed in http://www.gayhockey.com expecting nothing to come up and then I’d point to the web address and say “isn’t that their web address?”. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that there is a real website already operating at that address.
I still played dumb and asked him if it wasn’t the real Red Wings site.
July 8th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Gay huh, whens the last Lord Stanley Visited Montreal? Don’t knock my beloved Red Wings. Or I shall wish a pox on you, or maybe some flat Molson’s.
July 8th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Yep, you can’t very well knock the Red Wings, they’ve practically owned the Cup the last ten years.
We are fast approaching 2010, which will end the decade 2000- 2009, and it will be the first decade since the start of the NHL in which the Montreal Canadiens have NOT won a Stanley Cup.
Sigh.