The Major Brands Support Gay Marriage

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE
• DON'T LET THAT RABOW LOGO FOOL YOU: THE 9 CORPORATNS DONATED MILLNS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS
• WHY BIG BS LIKE NIKE AND CUMMS ARE BACKG GAY MARRIAGE
• JAPAN’S SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE IS SOARG. BUT CAN IT BEE LAW?
• THE MAJOR BRANDS ACTIVELY SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

GAY MARRIAGE

(TIF) isn't your grandfathers' ad: It shows a gay uple, a first for the jeweler. But there's also a bs se to be ma: The lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny held $790 ln buyg power, acrdg to a 2012 timate om the Human Rights Campaign, a leadg LGBT advocy group. Seattle-based Amazon (AMZN) also released an ad spot that featur a gay man buyg a Kdle e-rear.

"Let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I nsir beg gay among the greatt gifts God has given me, " he wrote October. Google: Not only do Google (GOOG)have an ternal workg group for employe known as Gayglers, but ma a bold statement about LGBT rights ahead of the Wter Olympics Sochi last year. The pany joed protts of anti-gay polici Rsia by featurg a rabow-lored "Google doodle" on s homepage.

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

The rabow-lored Oreo was a high-profile nod to gay rights. Starbucks: For CEO Howard Schultz, supportg gay rights meant directly nontg an vtor who claimed the pany's stance was erodg s bottom le. Lotn: Fully Remote Grdr offers a platform for members of the gay, bisexual, transgenr and other queer muni to explore datg optns and nnect wh fellow ers their area.

" 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. Urban OutftersIn addn to perpetratg many a fashn fx pas, Urban Outfters has also earned a reputatn as beg a pany that is bad for women and members of the gay muny. The clothg cha's CEO is notorly anti-gay and don't seem to md the pany's severe unrreprentatn of women when to learship posns.

Cracker BarrelCracker Barrel has been tratg advot wh s overtly racist and anti-gay practic for years.

WHY BIG BS LIKE NIKE AND CUMMS ARE BACKG GAY MARRIAGE

Carl's burger cha — which has no problem sellg s food wh sex — was found by vehemently anti-choice, anti-gay csar Carl Karcher. 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.

Levi'sThe jean manufacturer is a well-known supporter of marriage equaly, whose efforts rulted a 2010 GLAAD award for a pro-gay advertisement, and posive marks HRC's Buyer's Gui.

JAPAN’S SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE IS SOARG. BUT CAN IT BEE LAW?

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn. ” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups. Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years.

In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners. C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch. Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs.

That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S.

THE MAJOR BRANDS ACTIVELY SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v.