Businesses that contribute millions to anti-gay organizations

[Kylebrand]

FYI

Towerload (gay news and videos, current) I suggest you get a free subscription. Their researcher, John Wright, offered the following: These corporations donate millions every year to anti-gay organizations:
Salvation Army (red kettles), Exon/Mobil, Chick-fil-A, Bed, Bath and Beyond, Brooks Brothers, Cabela's, Dillards, Lowes, Regal Cinemas 16 (Regal, Edwards, United Artists) The Container Shop, Spirit Airlines, Zales Jewelers,

 

[peterh6308]

Damn not my bed, bath and beyond!!! Glad to not see Target.....

 

[tampa24]

How is it that whenever I go into a Dillard's, that you can't swing a $125 Polo shirt without hitting a gay male employee in there? LOL

I mean Gee Wiz... I walk past the cosmetics and beauty section for women...and behind the counters there are a few women and the rest, all gay men. You go into the men's formal dress clothes area and it's mostly, if not completely, gay men.

 

[freeky-b]

FYI

Towerload (gay news and videos, current) I suggest you get a free subscription. Their researcher, John Wright, offered the following: These corporations donate millions every year to anti-gay organizations:
Salvation Army (red kettles), Exon/Mobil, Chick-fil-A, Bed, Bath and Beyond, Brooks Brothers, Cabela's, Dillards, Lowes, Regal Cinemas 16 (Regal, Edwards, United Artists) The Container Shop, Spirit Airlines, Zales Jewelers,

The Correct Name is Towleroad (http://www.towleroad.com/)

 

[Ambivalent]

Kyle,

Thanks for this. I think we should not (if we are aware of it) be supporting businesses that fund anti-gay crusades. It is kind of easy for me to be (too) self-righteous about this, because there is no Chick-Fil-A in Canada (that I'm aware of); I don't hunt (though my nephew does, but he owns his own hunting store, so I'll send people there) so no Cabela's; I am too much a slob (there are two kinds of gays, fastidious decorative ones, and messy literary ones: guess which camp I fall into) so no BB&Beyond; I am too poor to buy jewellery, so no Zales (I don't think we have them in the arctic, either); and I am too fat to fit into a Brooks Brothers suit.

However, whilst sort of vestigially knowing of the fundamentalist tendencies of the Sally Ann, I have occasionally plopped a few bucks into their buckets. I am kind of conflicted about it, because I know they do a lot of good work, and often help out the homeless (and others) when no one else will. But, I will do a little more research, and if it bears out what was said on TowelRoad (or however it's spelt) I will try to look for other charities which do the same work, without stigmatizing gay people.

Thanks, Kyle, and Freeky. (You guys are turning me into a liberal, or a proto-activist, or something :O)

"A" XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

* Ben Folds Five, "Army". (Well I thought about the army, Dad said, "Son you're fucking high. . . Grew a moustache and a mud, got a job at Chick-fil-A")

 

[Ambivalent]

"Sally Ann" ~

From what I've read, this is a traditional Appalachian melody. Rufus Wainwright did a magnificent, heart-rending version of this song, but I can't find a stand-alone, non-messed up studio version of it, for you. But this kid's cover isn't (too) bad.

 

[Kylebrand]

Ambi,

The Salvation Army is a strong "Christian" organization. Perhaps that is why they are anti-gay. And yes, they do a lot of good too. I failed to mention that the list came from the Human Rights Campaign.

 

[joninliverton]

The Salvation Army in the uk cannot afford to be gay, and I doubt it can in the America's either. Any organisation(s) that ignore the pink pound are idiots to themselves. There are so many high profile gay film stars, pop stars, politicians, and businessmen that these charities or organisations would be cutting their own throats.