<p>As same-sex marriage laws move to state urts, rporatns are startg to speak out the fight for gay marriage</p>
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WHY BIG BS LIKE NIKE AND CUMMS ARE BACKG GAY MARRIAGE
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GAP clothg store logo at storeont nverted the Gay Pri lor schemeGetty. In few ways is this measure as effective as the workplace: A recent Glassdoor survey nducted by The Harris Poll reveals that 53% of LGBTQ employe (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer/qutng) have experienced or wnsed anti-LGBTQ ments by -workers. The $32-billn beverage and snack foods brand operat an LGBTQA Bs Rource Group (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer/qutng and asexual), operatn for almost 15 years, and was among the first pani to support new U.
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The Portland Trail Blazers, meantime, beme the first NBA team to back gay surprisg is the role of two big pani Indiana, a Republin stronghold. Cumms, the world's largt manufacturer of diel eng, and Eli Lilly, the big US maker of sul products, each gave $100, 000 to Freedom Indiana, a aln of bs, muny groups and fah lears tryg to keep a nstutnal amendment to ban gay marriage off the ballot this Target's Gregg Stehafel, Cumms' vice-print and chief admistrative officer Marya Rose didn't mce any words when talkg about the amendment to ban gay marriage, she told the state legislature earlier this month, "sends a negative msage that Indiana is not a place that wel people of all backgrounds and jeopardiz our abily to be petive global markets and to attract and reta top talent. "We strongly believe that a nstutnal amendment prohibg same-sex marriage is bad for bs and bad for Indiana, " said Greg Kueterman, director of rporate munitns, cg the need to rec and reta the bt global all pani back gay marriage, of urse.
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