Tag: MCdonald’s

This last Friday during Pride weekend in Barcelona, Spain, a man at a McDonald’s threatened to “beat the gay out of” a gay man for wearing “disrespectful” cut-off jean shorts and a tight neon yellow tank top in public. A bystander took video of their encounter and though police soon intervened the queer man declined to press charges. In the video (which has since been viewed over 4.2 million times), a security officer inside the fast-food restaurant speaks to a...

There’s a sad anecdote that circulates every Pride of an NYC subway passenger who sees fellow queers removing their rainbow gear on their ways home because they’re afraid of getting harassed away from the parade. The story is apocryphal, but it conveys a truth: It’s not always safe to express your queerness in public. Take this incident for example… In a video recorded in a McDonald’s during Pride weekend in Barcelona, Spain this last Friday, a man in a neon yellow...

While RuPaul’s Drag Race just crowned its season 11 winner as America’s Next Drag Superstar, one of the show’s most accomplished queens, Shangela, recently popped up in a funny commercial for McDonald’s breakfast items. It’s the latest example of how drag has turned from a queer fringe art form to an increasingly mainstream form of entertainment. Shangela — who has competed in four installments of RuPaul’s Drag Race but just narrowly missed the crown — walks into the commercial clad in...

The tea is hot! Or should we say French fries? One Connecticut McDonalds has thrown some shade at its new neighbor, a Chick-fil-A. Managers at a McDonalds location in Glastonbury, C.T., seemed to put the notoriously anti-gay fast food chain on blast with their latest display, which faces the unopened Chick-fil-A and reads, “We Welcome Everyone.” The general manager of the McDonalds in question told NBC News Connecticut that the sign was just a welcoming gesture. “It just means that everyone is...

Another day, another racist homophobe caught on tape. This time it’s a construction worker from Idaho yelling at a group of a group of high schoolers eating ice cream. 52-year-old Richard Sovenski was arrested after verbally assaulting a group of teenagers outside of a fast food restaurant, calling the youths “f*cking little f*ggot,” “f*cking half-breeds” and “f*cking n*gger wannabes.” The incident happened earlier this month in the parking lot of a McDonald’s in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and was caught on video....

Three McDonald’s locations in Washington DC will change their french fry boxes to rainbow stripes to honor LGBT pride and the usual suspects are outraged. All three stores are located along the city’s pride parade route according to the Washington Blade. While the boxes will only be available this weekend to honor both the pride parade and Sunday’s National Equality March. “The rainbow fry boxes are a fun way to show our support of the LGBTQ community using one of McDonald’s...

Just what you want when you're sipping on your cappuccino. ‘Tis the season to be filthy, apparently. McDonald’s new Christmas cups have been causing quite a stir after a number of customers discovered that with just a couple of squiggles, the harmless design becomes something quite different. More innocent minds will see a pair of mittens adorning the festive cups, which display the words ‘Warmest Greetings’ across them. However, keen-eyed fans of the fast-food restaurant have seen something in the festive design...