Contents:
- TARGET LNCH GAY PRI LE DPE BOYTT
- TARGET LNCH GAY PRI PRODUCTS: WE ‘PROUDLY STAND WH THE LGBT MUNY’
- TARGET BOYTT MOVEMENT GROWS FOLLOWG DONATN TO SUPPORT "ANTIGAY" CANDIDATE
TARGET LNCH GAY PRI LE DPE BOYTT
Compani like Nike or Starbucks n more easily create products or mpaigns around gay and transgenr issu or Pri Month bee their nsumers tend to be younger and more progrsive, said David Johnson, the chief executive of Strategic Visn PR Group Atlanta. “When they embrace the gay or transgenr muny, ’s not out of le wh their re beliefs, ” he said.
Levi’s has a mpaign showg a half-dozen gay and transgenr people talkg about how they show up while wearg the pany’s nim and a number of other pani are beg much ls forthg about specific Pri Month plans. “Whe gay men are the one segment that are most likely reprented on our screens, whether ’s programg or ads, ” said Lisette Arsuaga, -founr of the Alliance for Inclive and Multicultural Marketg. But Target’s rponse has trated supporters of gay and transgenr rights, who argued the pany ved to bigoted prsure.
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TARGET LNCH GAY PRI PRODUCTS: WE ‘PROUDLY STAND WH THE LGBT MUNY’
Although Target was actg to protect employe, some rporate marketg experts say the pany’s rponse uld emboln gay and transgenr rights opponents to target other brands. "Hi, 's me, Pattie Gonia, a real-life homosexual, " the performer troduced herself a vio promotg the outdoor clothg and gear pany's mpaign. An exterr view of the Stonewall Inn New York Cy's Greenwich Village, se of the 1969 rt that sparked the gay rights movement.
" In the procs, the te meang of Pri Month — which honors the Stonewall rts of 1969 that helped lnch the gay rights movement — n be lost to pure nsumerism, which turn feeds what's known as "rabow washg.
TARGET BOYTT MOVEMENT GROWS FOLLOWG DONATN TO SUPPORT "ANTIGAY" CANDIDATE
Conservative media outlet the Washgton Examer posted about Abprallen, which is “head by a self-proclaimed gay, transgenr man, ” offerg sweatshirts that read “cure transphobia not trans people” and a tote bag that says “too queer for here. “Brands promotg gay pri and the LGBTQ muny may not always be nsistent actually supportg the LGBTQ muny, but they still palize on the help that people want to give that muny, ” Abad-Santos wr.
“I was like ‘oh target pri isn’t that bad this year’ and then I saw this lol, ” someone tweeted about a shirt the llectn that purports homophobia and transphobia “n be cured wh tn. “It’s fally that time of the year when the target pri llectn mak me (a gay person) slightly homophobic, ” someone said above a llage of shirts they seemed to be mockg.
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