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TexasTowelie

(111,313 posts)
Mon Jun 27, 2022, 04:52 PM Jun 2022

Seattle Pride's Biggest Sponsors Also Give Big to Homophobic Politicians

If you head out to a Pride parade and party in the park this weekend, you’ll see big, cheery banners for major corporate sponsors. But behind the rainbows, those same sponsors also send tens of thousands of dollars to politicians who work to strip queer people of their rights.

Those sponsors include Alaska Air Group, which in 2020 used a political action committee to send at least $30,000 to elected officials who oppose marriage equality, nondiscrimination, and allowing trans people to serve openly in the military.

Through their PAC, Seattle Pride sponsor Chateau Ste. Michelle sent at least $26,000 to conservative homophobes in Congress over the last two years.

Seattle Pride sponsor T-Mobile was particularly generous, sending around $100,000 to members of Congress who have voted to block The Equality Act, ban adoption by same-sex parents, and amend the U.S. Constitution to ban marriage equality.

Read more: https://www.thestranger.com/pride-2022/2022/06/24/75521403/seattle-prides-biggest-sponsors-also-give-big-to-homophobic-politicians

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Seattle Pride's Biggest Sponsors Also Give Big to Homophobic Politicians (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2022 OP
It's Faux pas Jun 2022 #1
All too common, sadly IngridsLittleAngel Jun 2022 #2
 

IngridsLittleAngel

(1,962 posts)
2. All too common, sadly
Wed Jun 29, 2022, 02:09 AM
Jun 2022

Corporations love to talk a big game when trying to sell us products... Look at them talk up supporting BLM. Hey, look! June! We've rainbowed our logo!

...And everytime we're not looking, they're gladly giving large donations to racist, homophobic and transphobic politicians. Because, you know.... Bidness. We just need to understand that them giving to reich-wing bigoted politicians is good for business and the bottom line. It's nothing personal. Just business!

Right. So I hope they don't take it personally when I say "Fuck off!" And that I don't take it personally when you rainbow up your logos, because I know most of them don't mean it.

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