Gay rights activists have lnched a boytt agast Barilla after the CEO of the pasta behemoth said he would not e a gay uple the pany’s ads.
Contents:
- DID BARILLA PASTA'S CHAIRMAN MAKE ANTI-GAY REMARKS?
- BARILLA GO OM WORST TO FIRST ON GAY RIGHTS
- PASTA MAKER BARILLA TRI TO MAKE AMENDS AFTER CHAIRMAN’S ANTI-GAY REMARKS
- BARILLA PASTA HOT WATER OVER COMPANY PRINT'S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS
- BARILLA: ‘GAYS N EAT SOMEONE ELSE’S PASTA’
- BARILLA'S ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY
- BARILLA PASTA BARON'S ANTI-GAY MENT PROMPTS BOYTT LL
- BARILLA PRINT APOLOGIZ AGA FOR ANTI-GAY REMARKS
- BOYTTG BARILLA PASTA FOR ANTI-GAY REMARKS? A UPLE OF SUGGTNS
- BARILLA PASTA DON'T WANT GAY PEOPLE THEIR ADS
- PASTA MAKER BARILLA UNR FIRE FOR ANTI-GAY MENTS
- WHY BARILLA PASTA CEO IS SO CLUELS ABOUT GAYS
- ITALIAN PASTA BARON'S ANTI-GAY MENT PROMPTS BOYTT LL
- BARILLA PASTA EXECUTIVE HOT WATER FOR ANTI-GAY MENTS
- BERTOLLI MAK THE MOST OF BARILLA CHAIRMAN'S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS
DID BARILLA PASTA'S CHAIRMAN MAKE ANTI-GAY REMARKS?
After chairman Guido Barilla rebed gay fai on natnal rad, his CEO spent five years cleang up the pany’s reputatn. * barilla pasta anti gay *
“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.
BARILLA GO OM WORST TO FIRST ON GAY RIGHTS
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 . * barilla pasta anti gay *
If gay ctomers didn’t like that, they uld go buy another brand of pasta, he said.
PASTA MAKER BARILLA TRI TO MAKE AMENDS AFTER CHAIRMAN’S ANTI-GAY REMARKS
Italian pasta maker Barilla has reacted to the global storm ed by s chairman's ments that he would never e a gay fay his advertisg by sayg planned to make the pany more diverse and n a more clive TV ad mpaign. * barilla pasta anti gay *
The chairman, who turned 60 last year and has five children, further clarified that he opposed adoptn by gay parents. The chairman of the Barilla pasta brand once proclaimed he would never e homosexual upl his advertisements.
BARILLA PASTA HOT WATER OVER COMPANY PRINT'S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS
AP file/Bernd KammererGuido Barilla The print of Barilla is apologizg after disparagg remarks he ma about gay fai led to swift lls for a boytt of the pasta brand. Guido Barilla told an Italian rad statn that he * barilla pasta anti gay *
The chairman of the Barilla pasta brand once said he would never e homosexual upl his advertisements.
In September 2013, Guido Barilla, the chairman of Barilla Group, one of the world's leadg pasta manufacturers, engenred ntroversy and prompted lls for boytts when durg the urse of an terview wh an Italian rad program, he rpond to a qutn about whether he would ever feature a gay fay his pany's mercials by sayg (as roughly translated to English): "We won't clu gays our ads, bee we like the tradnal fay. If gays don't like , they n always eat another brand of pasta.
BARILLA: ‘GAYS N EAT SOMEONE ELSE’S PASTA’
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 * barilla pasta anti gay *
"I would never do (a mercial) wh a homosexual fay, not for lack of rpect but bee we don't agree wh them. In the terview, Barilla said he opposed adoptn by gay parents, but was favour of allowg gay marriage, which is not legal Italy. His ment about advertisg was rponse to a direct qutn about whether he would ever feature a gay fay his pany's mercials.
BARILLA'S ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY
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If gays "like our pasta and our advertisg, they'll eat our pasta, if they don't like then they won't eat and they n eat another brand, " he said.
Then the pasta magnate upped the ante by attackg gay adoptn. "I have no rpect for adoptn by gay fai bee this ncerns a person who is not able to choose, " he said.
BARILLA PASTA BARON'S ANTI-GAY MENT PROMPTS BOYTT LL
If you were hopg Barilla Pasta, the pasta brand that a blue box that isn't Ronzoni, was ever gog to feature a gay uple one of their sexy mercials, you should relquish that dream. On Wednday, the pasta pany's Chairman Guido Barilla said was never gog to happen and said gay people "n always go eat someone else’s pasta." * barilla pasta anti gay *
- I have the utmost rpect for gay people and for everyone's right to exprs themselv. - I've also said — and I would like to reerate — that I rpect gay marriag.
BARILLA PRINT APOLOGIZ AGA FOR ANTI-GAY REMARKS
Pasta maker Barilla is hot water after makg anti-gay remarks on an Italian rad program this week. * barilla pasta anti gay *
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 else. But 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.
Some of the gay advot who have worked wh Guido Barilla sce his ments believe his ntrn is scere.
BOYTTG BARILLA PASTA FOR ANTI-GAY REMARKS? A UPLE OF SUGGTNS
* Barilla says he would not feature gay fay mercial * barilla pasta anti gay *
“He was horrified at the nsequenc and his personal beliefs, ” said David Mixner, a veteran gay rights activist and thor who served as a nsultant for Barilla. "Italian Pasta Baron's Anti-Gay Comment Prompts Boytt Call.
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.
BARILLA PASTA DON'T WANT GAY PEOPLE THEIR ADS
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.
PASTA MAKER BARILLA UNR FIRE FOR ANTI-GAY MENTS
Acrdg to the Bloomberg report, Barilla’s revenue was better 2013, the year of the homophobic ment, than 2012.
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. “I would never do an ad wh a homosexual fay… If the gays don’t like they n go an eat another brand.
“I have no rpect for adoptn by gay fai bee this ncerns a person who is not able to choose. Rters - Italian pasta maker Barilla has reacted to the global storm ed by s chairman's ments that he would never e a gay fay his advertisg by sayg planned to make the pany more diverse and n a more clive TV ad Barilla's remarks to a rad terviewer September led to lls by gay rights groups to boytt the products of the world's biggt pasta maker, a pany more than 130 years old based the provcial cy of media quickly spread the ments that gave rise to numero Inter satir, cludg one wily posted on Facebook and Twter showg the tramark blue Barilla pasta box wh the letters "Bigotoni" on rather than "Rigatoni".
WHY BARILLA PASTA CEO IS SO CLUELS ABOUT GAYS
Chairman Barilla, the 55-year-old great grandson of the pany's founr, has sce held at least eight meetgs wh gay anizatns and activists both Italy and the Uned Stat, a market where is untg on for growth outsi s crisis-h home market. "WINDOW DRESSING"The pasta maker plans to troduce an advisory board that clus Amerin gay activist David Mixner to improve "diversy and equaly the pany's workforce and culture", acrdg to a statement posted on s webse.
ITALIAN PASTA BARON'S ANTI-GAY MENT PROMPTS BOYTT LL
However Carlos Dews, a gay English profsor at Rome's John Cabot Universy who has boytted Barilla products and urged his Facebook iends to do the same, was said the measur were a step the right directn but was too soon to tell whether they would brg any real change.
BARILLA PASTA EXECUTIVE HOT WATER FOR ANTI-GAY MENTS
-based Human Rights Campaign's rporate equaly x, which rat pani' polici relatg to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr employe.
BERTOLLI MAK THE MOST OF BARILLA CHAIRMAN'S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS
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.