Tag: corporations
TripAdvisor blasts ‘straight pride’ organizers in hilarious cease-and-desist letter
Organizers of Boston’s upcoming “Straight Pride” parade have been hit with another cease-and-desist letter from a corporation upset about the parade website displaying its logo and claiming to be in negotiations with it for a sponsorship. This time, the corporation is the travel website TripAdvisor, and the company’s letter hilariously includes the titles of numerous songs popular with the gay community.
Here are all the sentences containing the titles of gay anthems. See if you can spot them all:
TripAdvisor’s trademark...
There’s now a campaign to end pro-LGBTQ corporations’s donations to anti-queer politicians
This last Pride month, a site called Popular Information revealed that at least nine American corporation were donating millions to anti-LGBTQ candidates while receiving a perfect 100 score on the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Corporate Equality Index ranking the “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality.”
Now there’s a recently unveiled campaign called “Zero for Zeros” which is revealing these companies and asking them to stop their harmful donations.
These companies include many that you probably use every day like Amazon,...
Here are all 206 companies that signed SCOTUS brief to support LGBTQ employees
The Collection of the Supreme Court of the United StatesAmazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are among the 206 major U.S. and international corporations that signed an amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, July 2, to argue that sexual orientation and gender identity should be included in federal civil rights law.
Per NBC News, the brief comes three months before the Supreme Court is due to hear arguments in three cases involving LGBTQ workplace discrimination, after which the...
Should we be upset that companies take down their pride logos on July 1?
Though we could (and should) be proud of our sexualities and gender identities year-round, another pride month has come and gone. And all over the Internet, companies and brands are replacing their rainbow-hued logos with their usual, less flamboyant emblems.
Should we be irritated that companies only show off LGBTQ pride for 30 days of the year?
On Reddit user doesn’t think so. “Please stop complaining about companies taking down their pride logos after June 30,” that user wrote. “It’s so...
