Did Barilla Pasta's Chairman Make Anti-Gay Remarks? |

Contents:

• DID BARILLA PASTA'S CHAIRMAN MAKE ANTI-GAY REMARKS?
• BARILLA GO OM WORST TO FIRST ON GAY RIGHTS
• BARILLA PASTA HOT WATER OVER COMPANY PRINT'S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS
• GAY RIGHTS ADVOT BOYTT BARILLA AFTER PRINT OF PASTA MAKER'S REMARKS
• PASTA MAKER BARILLA PLANS "CLIVE" TV ADS AFTER ANTI-GAY REMARKS
• BARILLA EXEC APOLOGIZ FOR REMARKS ON GAYS
• BARILLA PRINT APOLOGIZ AGA FOR ANTI-GAY REMARKS

DID BARILLA PASTA'S CHAIRMAN MAKE ANTI-GAY REMARKS?

“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

If gay ctomers didn’t like that, they uld go buy another brand of pasta, he said.

The chairman, who turned 60 last year and has five children, further clarified that he opposed adoptn by gay parents.

BARILLA PASTA HOT WATER OVER COMPANY PRINT'S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS

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. Acrdg to the Bloomberg report, Barilla’s revenue was better 2013, the year of the homophobic ment, than 2012.

GAY RIGHTS ADVOT BOYTT BARILLA AFTER PRINT OF PASTA MAKER'S REMARKS

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. The chairman of the Barilla pasta brand once proclaimed he would never e homosexual upl his advertisements.

The chairman of the Barilla pasta brand once said he would never e homosexual upl his advertisements.

PASTA MAKER BARILLA PLANS "CLIVE" TV ADS AFTER ANTI-GAY REMARKS

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.

"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.

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.

BARILLA EXEC APOLOGIZ FOR REMARKS ON GAYS

"I have no rpect for adoptn by gay fai bee this ncerns a person who is not able to choose, " he said. - 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.

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. “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.

BARILLA PRINT APOLOGIZ AGA FOR ANTI-GAY REMARKS

"Italian Pasta Baron's Anti-Gay Comment Prompts Boytt Call. Gay rights activists Italy have lnched a boytt of the world's leadg pasta maker after s chairman said he would only portray the "classic fay" his advertisements and, if people objected to that, they should feel ee to eat a different kd of Barilla, who ntrols the fourth-generatn Barilla Group fay bs wh his two brothers, sparked outrage among activists, nsumers and some policians when he said he would not nsir g a gay fay to advertise Barilla pasta. "I would not do but not out of a lack of rpect for homosexuals who have the right to do what they want whout botherg others … [but] I don't see thgs like they do and I thk the fay that we speak to is a classic fay.

"Asked what effect he thought his attu would have on gay nsumers of pasta, Barilla said: "Well, if they like our pasta and our msage they will eat ; if they don't like and they don't like what we say they will … eat another. "Barilla rpond by sayg Boldri did not unrstand the advertisg world and women were fundamental to went on to discs gay rights, sayg that he "rpected everyone" and was favour of gay marriage, but agast gay remarks provoked anger among many of the policians who are tryg to pass legislatn agast homophobic untry, on whose polics the Catholic church has long exerted a nservative fluence, lags behd many other European untri on gay rights.

Far om movg towards the legalisatn of gay marriage, Italy still do not regnise same-sex civil unns. Alsandro Zen, an MP for the opposn Left Elogy Freedom party, said: "Here is another example of Italian homophobia.