Last week, Urban Outfters had pulled "I Support Same-Sex Marriage" t-shirts off s shelv (both onle and California stor) further fuelg the mors that the trendy young adult clothier is anti-gay. After all Richard Hayne, the founr and CEO of Urban Outfters, is a right-wg Republin known for supportg senators who oppose gay marriage. But rponse to the mors, an Urban Outfters spokman told New York Magaze on Wednday that the shirts were...
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- BARILLA'S NOT ALONE: 8 COMPANI WHO DON'T SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS
- URBAN OUTFTERS ON GAY MARRIAGE T-SHIRT: WE PULLED IT BEE IT WASN'T SELLG
- BEE YOU'RE UGLY: URBAN OUTFTERS PULLS TE SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE
BARILLA'S NOT ALONE: 8 COMPANI WHO DON'T SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS
Urban Outfters CEO Richard Hayne donated money to Rick Santom and oppos gay marriage and abortn? * urban outfitters against gay marriage *
Urban Outfters CEO Richard Hayne donated money to Rick Santom and oppos gay marriage and abortn? Claim: Urban Outfters CEO Richard Hayne donated money to Rick Santom and oppos gay marriage and abortn. He's agast gay marriage and abortn.
His pany pulled a pro-gay shirt back 08, they also blatantly ripped off an Etsy signers work, featured a t-shirt for women that said "eat ls" and most recently had a rd wh a "tranny" slur on . In a 2003 profile of Richard Hayne, Philalphia Weekly reported that Hayne had donated money to the re-electn mpaign of then-Senator Rick Santom (and current Republin printial ndidate) of Pennsylvania and cled to discs his own views on homosexualy:. Rick Santom, whose recent ments about homosexuals equated gay sex wh ct and btialy.
And where do Santom's posn on homosexualy f his fort zone? Although Richard Hayne has donated money to Rick Santom (and other Republin policians), a 2008 terview Urban Outfters' then-CEO Glen Senk mataed that Hayne's ntributns to Santom were not reflective of the former's viewpot regardg homosexualy:.
URBAN OUTFTERS ON GAY MARRIAGE T-SHIRT: WE PULLED IT BEE IT WASN'T SELLG
* urban outfitters against gay marriage *
Openly gay Glen Senk, the pany's chief executive of bs, told Pk Paper: "Urban Outfters did not make a donatn, Dick Hayne did. Santom ma the horrific statements on homosexualy 2003, and the bulk of the donatns were prr to this, so we're only talkg about $1, 000 after his evil proclamatn. "There is nothg homophobic about Dick Hayne, " he ntued.
And he said to me: 'You're right, I hate his views regardg homosexualy, but I'm not a one-issue voter'. But, if you're talkg about Urban Outfters, talk about me beg the CEO, that I've given the maximum amount of fancial backg to Obama, that I supported Dan Anrs — one of the first gay judg Ameri.
BEE YOU'RE UGLY: URBAN OUTFTERS PULLS TE SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE
In March 2012, Urban Outfters was the object of protts om lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr advot for sellg a greetg rd featurg a joke about transvtism.