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Queer-Inclusive Coffee Shop Billboard Sparks Controversy In New Hampshire

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Queer-Inclusive Coffee Shop Billboard Sparks Controversy In New Hampshire – By Curtis M. Wong / July 10 2017

A café and coffee shop in Somersworth, New Hampshire caused a local stir after it erected a cheeky, queer-inclusive billboard for Pride last month.

The ad for Teatotaller features a man in pink eyeshadow and short shorts posing with his legs akimbo as he’s about to bite into a sandwich. “I like my men like I like my coffee,” the billboard, which first appeared June 22, reads.

The Teatotaller billboard was erected June 22 in honor of Pride month.

The ad’s sexy-cute feel doesn’t seem out of line for Teatotaller, which bills itself as “an oasis of queer, hipster tea, coffee, and pastry goodness” on Facebook. But a photo of the billboard, which was posted to Facebook by local news outlet Somersworth Now June 27, had nonetheless received more than 160 comments, many of them negative, by Monday afternoon.

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