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Boycotting Chick-fil-A? Here Are 243 Other Companies You Might Want to Avoid
Some prominent Philly companies — as well as familiar national brands like Armani, H&M, Kate Spade, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Outback Steakhouse — don’t receive high LGBTQ marks in a just-released report.
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You know how your friends are always annoying you by sharing links from years ago as if they are brand-new stories? That’s what I thought happened the other day when somebody posted a story about LGBTQ groups and their allies boycotting Chick-fil-A. I assumed that it must contain been coverage from 2012, when folks boycotted Chick-fil-A over some of the company’s charitable contributions and policies and comments that Chick-fil-A’s CEO made about gay marriage.
But no. This Chick-fil-A boycott is new.
You see, the website Reflect Progress recently revealed that Chick-fil-A’s charitable foundation donated close to $2 million to three groups with “a record of anti-LGBTQ discrimination.” Among t
This anti-DEI activist is targeting an LGBTQ index. Major companies are listening.
One of the concessions Molson Coors made when it bowed to pressure from activist Robby Starbuck and retreated from some of its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives was withdrawing from a benchmark index the Human Rights Campaign uses to measure how amiable a company’s policies are to LGBTQ+ people.
In response, Starbuck resurfaced a $1 million donation Vizzy Difficult Seltzer – owned by Molson Coors – made to the HRC four years ago. “Today Coors wants no association with them,” Starbuck told his 600,000 followers on the social media platform X.
The maker of Coors Bright isn’t the only firm distancing itself from the LGBTQ+ advocacy group.
Six out of seven companies targeted so far by Starbuck – Molson Coors, Harley-Davidson, Lowe’s, rural retailer Tractor Supply, distiller Brown-Forman, which makes Jack Daniel’s, and carmaker Ford – contain all pledged to discontinue providing workplace data for the HRC’s Corporate Equality Index.
The seventh – tractor maker John Deere – said it would no longer support “social or cultural awareness parades, festivals or events” but didn’t mention the HRC.
Need a bDuring a Record-Setting Year of Anti-LGBTQ+ Attacks, 300+ Major U.S. Companies Voice Opposition to Anti-Equality Legislation
by Cullen Peele •
Washington, D.C. - Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest homosexual woman, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, announced that more than 300 major U.S. companies have spoken out against attacks on the LGBTQ+ community by signing on to HRC’s business statement on anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. The list of signatories, which has grown by 50% since the start of 2022, presents a unified message that anti-equality legislation is also anti-business, underscoring that assaults on LGBTQ+ rights contradict U.S. public opinion and decades of progress in the workforce.
The business letter was launched in 2020. But now, just three months into the year, 2023 is already on path to be a record-setting year of anti-LGBTQ+ attacks at the hands of state legislators throughout the country, with most of them targeting transgender people, particularly transgender youth. So far in 2023, HRC is tracking more than 460 anti-LGBTQ+ bills that have been introduced in statehouses across the land. More t
These companies kept up LGBTQ advertising despite risk of consumer boycotts
Weeks after a Bud Light endorsement from trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney unleashed a torrent of online vitriol that escalated into a widespread anti-LGBTQ boycott, Anheuser-Busch had yet to contact her about it, she said.
"I was waiting for the mark to reach out," Mulvaney said on Instagram in June. "They never did."
Anheuser-Busch did not respond to ABC News' request for comment about its contact with Mulvaney.
A corporation spokesperson pointed to a previous utterance, which said: "As we've said, we remain committed to the programs and partnerships we hold forged over decades with organizations across a number of communities, including those in the Gay community."
The sentiment from Mulvaney echoed wider concern among advocates about a potential chilling effect for LGBTQ-inclusive advertising in the aftermath of the financially damaging boycott against Bud Light, as adv as another against Target over its Pride display.
The consumer backlash has elicited concern among corporations about threats to their bottom line posed by such marketing, since a f
200+ Major U.S. Companies Oppose Anti-LGBTQ+ State Legislation
by Henry Berg-Brousseau •
Box, Inc., Compass, Gilead Sciences, Inc., HP Inc., Hyatt, and Mattel, Inc. among signatories joining Human Rights Campaign and Freedom for All Americans’ Business Statement
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Human Rights Campaign and Liberty for All Americans announced that more than 200 major companies have connected together to indicate on to the Human Rights Campaign and Freedom for All Americans Business Statement on Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation. Together, these companies are together in opposing the wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, much of which specifically harms transgender youth, in states across the country. The list of signatories has more than quadrupled in the past year.
“Every day, more and more major businesses are refusing to sit idly by as articulate legislators across the country push anti-transgender legislation and other bills affecting their LGBTQ+ workers, customers, and clients,” said Joni Madison, Interim President Joni Madison, Human Rights Campaign. “Cruel legislative attacks, especially against gender nonconforming youth, force employees to choose between states where they can p