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including Comcast, Anheuser-Busch, Diageo, and La Crema, which is owned by Jackson Family Wines.
Media has to just name names going forward, all of them. This planet needs to know what evil to avoid. Good this article did, although I wonder who they might have omitted.
The president himself couldn't save Tesla stock. The president doesn't have the power that the people do.
These companies are on the wrong fucking side.
I’ve been to Pride events outside of the US and not a fucking corporate sponsor in sight with their goofy gayed-out logos and they were awesome. Fun, informative, inclusive and free. We can celebrate all of these “inclusive” events by not buying a single “corporate” product for the whole month, starting with those that used to show support.
I want to go to Pride in Amsterdam. The parade is a boat parade along the canals.
Straight ally checking in. Started growing my own food last year, mainly as a hobby to keep me from doom scrolling so much. But I really like this idea and am going to try not buying anything but gas the entire month.
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in 20 years there will not be a Donald Trump. there may or may not be a united states. but there will absolutely be gays and trans people.
there will absolutely be gays and trans people.
True, homosexuality isn't going away. However, while I would rate it as quite unlikely, I could imagine a world where sodomy laws returned, social norms changed, and homosexuality became a taboo again. There have been places and times in human history where the acceptability of homosexuality have varied quite a bit. I don't think that social norms on homosexuality are really tightly linked to technology or something where there's a clear "arrow" driving in one direction over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_homosexuality
Societal attitudes towards same-sex relationships have varied over time and place. Attitudes to male homosexuality have varied from requiring males to engage in same-sex relationships to casual integration, through acceptance, to seeing the practice as a minor sin, repressing it through law enforcement and judicial mechanisms, and to proscribing it under penalty of death. In addition, it has varied as to whether any negative attitudes towards men who have sex with men have extended to all participants, as has been common in Abrahamic religions, or only to passive (penetrated) participants, as was common in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Female homosexuality has historically been given less acknowledgment, explicit acceptance, and opposition.
Homosexuality was generally accepted in many ancient and medieval eastern cultures such as those influenced by Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism.[1][2] Homophobia in the eastern world is often discussed in the context of being an import from the western world,[3][4] with some contending that definitions of "progress" on homosexuality (e.g. LGBT rights) as being Western-centric.[5]
I mean, that's a patchwork at any point in time, and one that hasn't changed in a single direction over time.
Grinder goes wild around republican party conferences but how many of them are out? They're definitely going to try to return the country to repression because a lot of them already are.
you misunderstand. i will make there be gays myself
That’s the spirit!
Oh no, not $300k! How will the parade survive the absolutely no difference that will make?
The article states they need $1.2 million to pull it off, so $300K is 1/4 of the budget.
They need 1.2 million to pull it off as planned. Scale back on the rainbow bunting. It’s a huge event and the vendors and businesses in the area rake in cash. It’s got some momentum and this year, based on it’s going to be a big pride season.
I do not need corporate money in order to be gay in public.
The one time I went to Pride I was disappointed with how it was basically a bunch of corporate advertisements. I'd be happy to go again if the tone changes.
The one time I went to Pride I was disappointed with how it was basically a bunch of corporate advertisements.
If you're selling a product aimed at a gay crowd, aside from profile-driven, targeted online advertising, how many better venues are you going to have to promote your stuff?
Most Pride events that I think that I've seen images of are done in public areas in cities
kind of the point of them
and so whoever wants can do whatever.
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I don't think I've seen ads at Burning Man. Might be that they have restrictions on them.
kagis
Yup.
https://survival.burningman.org/rules-and-regulations/commerce-concessions/
Logos & branding
Black Rock City is a decommodified zone where branding is not welcome. Advertising? Hell no. Launching a product? Not in Black Rock City. Burning Man is not a place to promote your business, website, or product.
It'd be possible to go organize something like that in a controlled environment, I think. But if the point of a Pride parade is to increase visibility among the wider population, going to such a controlled environment seems like it'd be kind of counterproductive.
If the products were actually aimed at a gay crowd, I'd be a little more okay with that. But the main funders were T-Mobile and Alaska Airlines.
Basically. My friends who always made pretty elaborate costumes for Pride stopped going because it was 90% ads and garbage swag.
We'll see how many of those corporations switch their logos come June.
Corporations are everyone's enemy.
Never have we seen a community under fire in my generation. Than we are seeing today.
Black people have been under fire for the past 300 years, and are still under fire to this day due to DEI rollbacks, so your comment sounds like you are trolling.
I can understand that. I am wrong for saying that though. You are right. But even more. We need to take back what they are rolling back. All at risk individuals. Including myself with my terrible memory.
The way all these companies have ditched gay rights really clarifies how much of an empty gesture the month of rainbow banners was (and how much of an empty gesture this probably is). But I think I liked it better when they did an empty gesture in support of gay rights rather than against them
kinda wanna make a pride float with all the banners of companies that abandoned pride this year
Oh, that's a good one.
I’ve been trying to keep track of which companies are sticking with it. Costco and Apple both seem to be staying the course with DEI in particular.
Kohls is too. They kept the policies but changed the title of the DEI program to hide from conservatives.
But I think I liked it better when they did an empty gesture in support of gay rights rather than against them
Just one of those things. Means nothing about the companies themselves, but means everything about where society in general is at.
Rainbow capitalism.
Never forget that Pride started as a riot.
