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Contents:
- 6 SCMPT PRO-GAY PASTAS
- BARILLA PASTA TO GAYS: "GO AND EAT ANOTHER BRAND"
- IN COUNTRY'S FIRST GAY-FRIENDLY AD, SON COM OUT OVER PASTA ITALY
- BARILLA PASTA ANNOUNC 'DIVERSY AND INCLN' CAMPAIGN FOLLOWG GAY BACKLASH
- BARILLA GO OM WORST TO FIRST ON GAY RIGHTS
- HOMOPHOBIC PASTA AND GAY PRI OREOS
- BARILLA’S CHAIRMAN DON’T LIKE GAY PEOPLE—SO WHAT?
- ITALIAN PASTA BARON'S ANTI-GAY MENT PROMPTS BOYTT LL
- GAY CHEFS — 11 GREAT RECIP
- IT'S ANOTHER BAD WEEK TO BE GAY
- BUONI PASTA RPONDS TO BARILLA'S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS WH LGBT COMMUNY SUPPORT (PHOTO)
6 SCMPT PRO-GAY PASTAS
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When Guido Barilla, chairman of Italy-based Barilla Pasta, said that his pany will never e a gay uple his ads and if that angers LGBT folks, they should jt eat someone else's pasta, untls LGBT people and straight alli around the world did jt that. To help you spend your hard-earned gay dollars on worthwhile brands, we've llected six fabulo gay-iendly pasta brands that n easily replace Barilla's spot your pantry. The German arm of the pany took to social media Friday morng to distguish self om s gay-hatg B-named petors wh a new image (above) acpanied by the ptn "Love and pasta for all!
")"We jt wanted to spread the news that Bertolli wel everyone, pecially those wh an empty stomach, " a spokperson for Or im Hafen, Bertolli's social-media agency Germany, tells AdWeek, which pots out that the brand has been gay-iendly the U. And even though has new owners, has the same great gay fan base. And we all know you n't be homophobic and survive a farmer's market crowd.
BARILLA PASTA TO GAYS: "GO AND EAT ANOTHER BRAND"
After chairman Guido Barilla rebed gay fai on natnal rad, his CEO spent five years cleang up the pany’s reputatn. * lgbt gay pasta *
“I would never do a mercial wh a homosexual fay, not for lack of rpect, but bee we don’t agree wh them, ” Barilla said on Italy’s bt-known rad talk show.
If gay ctomers didn’t like that, they uld go buy another brand of pasta, he said. The chairman, who turned 60 last year and has five children, further clarified that he opposed adoptn by gay parents.
That was until an Italian rad show recently asked Guido Barilla, the chairman of one of the world's leadg pasta manufacturers, if he would ever feature gay fai and upl the pany's advertisements.
IN COUNTRY'S FIRST GAY-FRIENDLY AD, SON COM OUT OVER PASTA ITALY
Years after the pany's chairman's famo anti-gay screed, some people are still boyttg the popular pasta brand, but most seem to be eatg . * lgbt gay pasta *
Acrdg to Gb Street, the 55-year-old rpond:"I would never do (a mercial) wh a homosexual fay, not for lack of rpect but bee we don't agree wh them. A gay fay n be a classic fay ma up of people who re about each other, whether is a blogil or chosen group of supportive dividuals. Although he is favor of gay marriage, which is not legal Italy, he oppos gay parents adoptg children.
Aurel Manco, lear of gay rights group Equaly Italia, lled for a boytt on Barilla's pasta, sc and snacks. “I would never do an ad wh a homosexual fay… If the gays don’t like they n go an eat another brand.
BARILLA PASTA ANNOUNC 'DIVERSY AND INCLN' CAMPAIGN FOLLOWG GAY BACKLASH
In what is believed to be the first gay iendly mpaign, a son out over microwaved pasta * lgbt gay pasta *
“I have no rpect for adoptn by gay fai bee this ncerns a person who is not able to choose. Its chairman, Guido Barilla, said on Italian rad, "We won’t clu gays our ads, bee we like the tradnal fay.
BARILLA GO OM WORST TO FIRST ON GAY RIGHTS
Gay rights groups are boyttg Pasta Barilla after the pany's CEO, Guido Barilla, said Wednday on an Italian rad show, "I would never do an advert wh * lgbt gay pasta *
If gays don’t like , they n always eat another brand of pasta.
"Barilla also said, "I have no rpect for adoptn by gay fai bee this ncerns a person who is not able to choose, " sistg that women play a "central role" the fay. Barilla was blatant his view that gay and lbian upl, and their children, nnot nstute a fay worth pictg advertisg, and that same-sex upl are unsuable as parents.
"His rejectn of adoptn by gay parents as suable fai ntraven the rearch that shows that children of gay and lbians upl make great parents who raise healthy, well-adjted children, " Breen ntued. "And his ignorance of the gay and lbian market sector is simply bad bs. Fd, a ozen food pany, produced what is believed to be the first gay-iendly ad the European untry.
HOMOPHOBIC PASTA AND GAY PRI OREOS
Barilla Pasta Rponds To Anti-Gay Backlash Wh 'Diversy' Move * lgbt gay pasta *
The ad ne months after the chairman of Italian pasta maker Barilla me unr fire for sayg that he would never e a gay fay his ads.
” Gay activists Europe praised the vio for showsg the simplicy and the daily life of a gay uple. “It’s a posive step forward when different typ of fai are portrayed ads, as they ronate wh parts of society that are ually margalized, ” said Juris Lavrikovs, the munitns manager of ILGA, Europe’s Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans & Intersex Associatn. Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT+) dividuals are those who are unique terms of eher sexualy, genr inty or both.
A gay person is a male attracted to other mal.
BARILLA’S CHAIRMAN DON’T LIKE GAY PEOPLE—SO WHAT?
Last week, homophobic pasta beme a thg. The spaghetti mogul Guido Barilla, announced an terview that heâ?Td never e a gay uple an ad, and that if the gays had a problem wh this, they should swch to another pasta brand. After lls to boytt Barilla, bed wh rightful ter outrage, Mr. Barilla me out wh a slightly dub vio apology. * lgbt gay pasta *
The WHO and DSM-5 do not nsir beg transgenr or homosexualy to be a mental illns anymore. Homosexualy has not been a mental illns the DSM-5 for over 30 years.
When Homosexualy Stopped Beg a Mental Disorr. 70% of transgenr and genr non-nformg patients and 56% of lbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) patients reported experiencg discrimatn om a healthre provir.
Journal of Homosexualy, 67(2), 159–173. Homosexualy is natural, has existed for thoands of years and has been observed up to 1, 500 speci of animals. Homosexualy.
ITALIAN PASTA BARON'S ANTI-GAY MENT PROMPTS BOYTT LL
* Barilla says he would not feature gay fay mercial * lgbt gay pasta *
1, 500 animal speci practice homosexualy.
What do the scholarly rearch say about the well-beg of children wh gay or lbian parents? In 2013, the CEO of Barilla, one of the world’s biggt dried pasta brands, marred an otherwise anodyne terview about the pany’s legacy wh an egreg homophobic ment. “I would never do a mercial wh a homosexual fay, ” Guido Barilla said live on the Italian statn Rad 24, “not for lack of rpect, but bee we don’t agree wh them.
But the efforts, mendable as they are, may not have had a huge effect on Barilla’s bottom le — and ’s possible Guido’s homophobic ments didn’t eher. Acrdg to the Bloomberg report, Barilla’s revenue was better 2013, the year of the homophobic ment, than 2012.
GAY CHEFS — 11 GREAT RECIP
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Like Barilla, Chick-fil-A’s CEO has a history of makg homophobic ments. And both have CEOs who have ma homophobic ments the past.
Gay rights groups are boyttg Pasta Barilla after the pany's CEO, Guido Barilla, said Wednday on an Italian rad show, "I would never do an advert wh a homosexual fay.
IT'S ANOTHER BAD WEEK TO BE GAY
" Barilla went on to say that his pany's gay ctomers uld go elsewhere if they didn't like his stance. His statements me as Italian legislators are attemptg to pass legislatn agast homophobic crim.
Alsandro Zan, an openly gay member of Italy's parliament tweeted, "You n't ms around wh nsumers, cludg gay on. Italy's Barilla Pasta me unr fire September when the pany's chairman ma ments that sparked a backlash and boytt om the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny.
"What do you thk about Barilla's rponse to the backlash surroundg 's Chairman's anti-gay ments? He said a vio posted to Facebook that he has "always rpected every person I've met, cludg gays and their fai, whout any distctns" and "never discrimated agast anyone.
BUONI PASTA RPONDS TO BARILLA'S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS WH LGBT COMMUNY SUPPORT (PHOTO)
Not long ago, pasta-maker Barilla was jt one more major pany that had n afoul of the gay rights movement, a distctn earned last year when s chairman said he would never feature a same-sex uple an ad.
If gays didn’t like , he add, they uld eat somethg a sign of how toxic has bee for a pany to be viewed as uniendly toward gays, Barilla has ma a dramatic turnaround the space of one year, expandg health benefs for transgenr workers and their fai, ntributg money to gay rights , and featurg a lbian uple on a promotnal Web se. Barilla has journeyed om gay rights pariah to poster child — on Wednday received a perfect sre om a proment gay rights group that rat pani on their gay-iendls. It is an about-face that highlights how pani, which typilly shy away om ntroversy, are creasgly beg forced to take sis the cultural battle over gay rights and same-sex marriage — and how cisively pro-gay forc have gaed the upper hoehold-name brands have also found themselv hot water over actns that were perceived to be anti-gay.
Chick-fil-A stopped givg to certa anizatns 2012 after earng the ire of gay rights groups that acced the fast-food cha of supportg anti-gay pani were subject to boytts, though there has been a unter effort by socially nservative groups to support and embrace peril for pani is not short-term profs, bee boytts rarely affect revenue directly, said Mary-Hunter McDonnell, a profsor of strategy at Geetown Universy’s McDonough School of Bs. “Really, boytts are about threateng a pany’s public image and reputatn, ” she said, and a tarnished brand n ultimately hurt the bottom the past, pani had to be reful not to offend groups that opposed homosexualy, said Bob Weck, a rporate crisis nsultant who specializ gay issu.