In honor of LGBT Pride Month, agency Venables Bell & Partners for client Google My Business introduces us to City Gym in Kansas City, Mo. Hailee Bland Walsh, the owner of City Gym, believes her gym “should be more than a place to work out. It should be a place to belong.” She uses Google My Business to share that her gym is a safe place where everyone is welcome.
Everyone includes a growing transgender community as we meet Jake, a City Gym regular who is transitioning from female to male. The gym is his place to get his new body in shape, and where he finds a community of support.
Eliot Rausch, who at the time was with Uber Content, directed this spot. (Rausch has since joined Stink USA.)