18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their Propaganda | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• DON'T LET THAT RABOW LOGO FOOL YOU: THE 9 CORPORATNS DONATED MILLNS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS
• CORPORATNS SLE BACK SHOWS OF PRI SUPPORT AMID ANTI-TRANS AND ANTI-GAY LAWS
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• ANTI-GAY NONPROFS, BS RECEIVED LNS COVID-19 AID
• 7 COMPANI THAT DON'T SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS

DON'T LET THAT RABOW LOGO FOOL YOU: THE 9 CORPORATNS DONATED MILLNS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS

" Moreover, before Exxon acquired Mobil 1999, Mobile had "polici to protect discrimatn agast gay men and lbians, and even offered benefs to same-sex upl, " but Exxon took that all away, acrdg to LGBT news se the Dallas perhaps a new low for the pany, the Human Right Campaign gave the massive employer a sre of below zero on s 2012 Corporate Equaly Inx, which measur LGBT equaly and workplace protectns. Gay rights groups dubbed his hamburgers 'bigot burgers' after Karcher supported a 1978 proposn that would have allowed school boards to fire teachers who were gay or advoted homosexualy. If Facebook is any ditor, many if not most of my iends have signed on to the Chick-fil-A boytt bee of that pany’s charable ntributns and polici and CEO Dan Cathy’s recent statements about gay marriage.

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

CORPORATNS SLE BACK SHOWS OF PRI SUPPORT AMID ANTI-TRANS AND ANTI-GAY LAWS

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". "The ADF is untg on you to jo them seeg the LGBTQ muny as an outsized threat pared to the actual percentage of adult Amerins who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, " Greenmh Supreme Court's cisn the se is "yet another weapon the arsenal or arm of the octop" of the "same people who are phg the legislatn, " Greenmh Amerins support LGBTQ rights, surveys fdAnother recent survey also found most Amerins support nondiscrimatn protectns for LGBTQ Amerin adults – cludg two-thirds of those intifyg as Catholics or Christians – disagree wh relig-based nial of medil re, employment or other servic to LGBTQ dividuals, acrdg to a September 2022 survey nducted by the Universy of Chigo partnership wh the Williams Instute, a thk tank dited to genr inty and sexual orientatn rearch at the Universy of California Los Angel School of, pollg that asks qutns on the right of a bs owner to refe service based on their relig beliefs shows more mixed rults. Troy Hake, the print of Outsi Pri, sent a homophobic manifto to the participants of his pany’s email list, tryg to rally them a full-on mpaign agast “the whole CBS homosexual rtel”.

” []Urban Outfters: Richard Hayne, the Chairman of the hipsterish Urban Outfters, is a notably right-wg Republin who generoly supports GOP ndidat and that vote for legislatn agast gay marriage. His pany also operat stor unr Free People and Anthropologie Glen Senk, the CEO of the parent pany, Urban Outfters, Inc., is an openly gay man who has been a mted relatnship for over 30 years.

ANTI-GAY NONPROFS, BS RECEIVED LNS COVID-19 AID

As discsed the first article this Pri 2021 seri on LGBTQ+ Marketg, Reprentg Fifty Shas of Gay the LGBTQ+ Marketplace, 's almost enough to make LGBTQ+ people feel that the stggle for equaly may fally be over. Most LGBTQ nsumers are aware of pani such as Hobby Lobby, Chick-Fil-A (Chick-Fil-A as a pany has vowed to disntue support for anti-gay measur through s foundatn, but s CEO, Dan Cathy, is still a keen anti-LGBTQ+ donor) and Publix that ntue wh ratgs of zero on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equaly Inx (HRC CEI), a natnal benchmarkg tool on rporate polici, practic, and benefs pertent to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer employe.

In that era of Corporate Avoidance to avoid backlash om mastream nsumers, LGBTQ+ people stggled to live their often-closeted liv as the foils for GOP's Moral Majory power grab an era of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the Defense of Marriage Act, and what Frank Rich scribed 1999 as "[t]he homophobic epimic of '98, which spiked wh the October murr of Matthew Shepard. So they're not really puttg a whole lot of thought and tentn rollg out the mpaigns, which not only alienat the LGBTQ nsumers that they had, but also people who are, you know, possibly transphobic, homophobic or jt don't unrstand what the pot is of supportg pri. SHAPIRO: So if the bad way to approach this is, oh, I'll roll out some rabow gear and make a buck off gay people while also alienatg anti-gay people - if that's the wrong way to do , what's the right way to do ?

7 COMPANI THAT DON'T SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS

Anti-LGBTQ groups primarily nsist of Christian Right groups but also clu such anizatns as the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy (NARTH) that purport to be scientific. Even as some well-known anti-gay groups like Foc on the Fay morate their views, a hard re of smaller groups, most of them religly motivated, have ntued to pump out monizg propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other sexual mori. The groups’ fluence reach far beyond what their size would suggt, bee the “facts” they dissemate about homosexualy are often amplified by certa policians, other groups and even news anizatns.

The book mak a seri of claims that virtually no ser historian agre wh: that Hler was gay, that “the Nazi Party was entirely ntrolled by aristic homosexuals, ” and that gays were pecially selected for the SS bee of their nate btaly. Takg a page om the anti-gay fabulist Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), Fischer claimed a blog post last May 27 that “[h]omosexualy gave Adolph Hler, and homosexuals the ary gave the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war mache and 6 ln ad Jews. In a 2010 “actn alert, ” the AFA warned that if homosexuals are allowed to openly serve the ary, “your son or dghter may be forced to share ary showers and barracks wh active and open homosexuals.