Ne of the biggt, most LGBTQ-supportive rporatns Ameri gave about $1 ln or more each to anti-gay policians the last electn cycle. Compani like AT&T, UPS, Comst, Home Depot and General Electric. All told, their donatns totaled almost $15 ln.
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DON'T LET THAT RABOW LOGO FOOL YOU: THE 9 CORPORATNS DONATED MILLNS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS
The Human Rights Campaign logo is one of the most regnizable symbols of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny. * gay rights rainbow logo *
Why a lor batn at all, and not some kd of shape as a logo stead?The LGBT pri flag was vented 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a gay rights activist, army veteran, artist, and self-styled "gay Betsy Ross." (Baker died March of this year.) He ma the flag for the Gay Freedom Pri Para that year San Francis, at the requt of Harvey Milk, a gay cy polician who was assassated later that year.The symbol took hold immediately."We stood there and watched and saw the flags, and their fac l up," Cleve Jon, an LGBT rights activist prent at the para, told The New York Tim. I realized I would have to make some promis orr for this to really functn as a symbol."Closeted gay people have also historilly ed bright lors to signal their homosexualy to each other, as Forrt Wickman wrote Slate.