Gay Chick-Fil-A Employe Speak Out
Contents:
- FDG OUT WTBROOK’S CHICK-FIL-A IS OWNED BY TWO GAY MEN MA ME PSE
- I’M GAY AND I EAT AT CHICK-FIL-A. SHOULD I FEEL ASHAMED?
- CHICK-FIL-A ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY: GAY EMPLOYE SPEAK OUT
- A GAY FENSE OF CHICK-FIL-A
- CHICK-FIL-A EVEN IF YOU'RE GAY? THREE DRAG QUEENS LAMPOON COMPANY IN MIC VIO
FDG OUT WTBROOK’S CHICK-FIL-A IS OWNED BY TWO GAY MEN MA ME PSE
I have avoid Chick-fil-A bee of the stori of the owner, Dan Cathy, havg an anti-gay agenda. Call peer prsure, but beg gay AND the public eye -- I feel a slight rponsibily to do 'the right thg.
A gay uple owns the Wtbrook CFA!
I’M GAY AND I EAT AT CHICK-FIL-A. SHOULD I FEEL ASHAMED?
Alana basilly said that Brad wants to foc more on dog good the muny, rather than beg a spokperson for the gay muny. Sometim, jt bee you are gay, you may be expected to be a lear the gay muny.
Notably, Chick-fil-A never explicly said would permanently stop donatg to anti-gay groups or anizatns that discrimate agast LGBTQ people — jt said was changg s philanthropic givg mol. In 2012, the Chigo-based Civil Rights Agenda issued a statement claimg that Chick-fil-A had promised to “no longer give to anti-gay anizatns, such as Foc on the Fay and the Natnal Organizatn for marriage.
As ThkProgrs reported 2017, Chick-fil-A ntued to bankroll anti-gay groups like the Fellowship of Christian Athlet, the Salvatn Army, and the Pl Anrson Youth Home through s foundatn.
CHICK-FIL-A ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY: GAY EMPLOYE SPEAK OUT
But the 2012 cint wasn’t the first time the Cathys were acced of homophobia. A year earlier, a Pennsylvania Chick-fil-A’s cisn to donate food to a marriage semar nducted by the Pennsylvania Fay Instute, a group known for s anti-gay advocy, prompted a natnwi boytt of the cha. Cathy issued a vio statement rponse to the boytt, which he claimed the pany “serv all people” and that, while he personally believ the “biblil fn of marriage, ” his pany don’t have an “anti-gay agenda.
A GAY FENSE OF CHICK-FIL-A
In 2011, the same year a Pennsylvania Chick-fil-A anchise donated food to a lol anti-gay anizatn, the LGBTQ advocy group Equaly Matters obtaed tax rerds which revealed that the Cathy fay had donated more than $1.
9 ln to anti-gay groups 2010 through the WShape Foundatn, the Cathy fay’s charable givg anizatn found by Tett Cathy 1984. 1 ln gift to the Marriage & Fay Foundatn, a group that promoted so-lled tradnal marriage and opposed both gay marriage and divorce; $480, 000 to the Fellowship of Christian Athlet, an athletic anizatn that requir applints to agree to a “sexual pury statement” that nmns LGBTQ people for livg “impure liftyle[s]”; and $1, 000 to Exod Internatnal, a group that promot anti-gay nversn therapy. For Chick-fil-A’s opponents, the problem was bigger than Cathy’s anti-gay ments, was that he was apparently puttg his money where his mouth was, and he had a lot of money to go around.
CHICK-FIL-A EVEN IF YOU'RE GAY? THREE DRAG QUEENS LAMPOON COMPANY IN MIC VIO
In a 2014 terview wh the Atlanta Journal-Constutn, Cathy admted he regretted gettg volved the gay marriage bate. Though Chick-fil-A never managed to fully shed s reputatn as a homophobic purveyor of lic chicken sandwich, ntued to expand s natnal prence, pecially above the Mason-Dixon le. The Cathys’ “dissonant view, ” as one brand nsultant lled , may have fally hurt Chick-fil-A’s bottom le — pecially now that a popular, non-homophobic alternative to Chick-fil-A’s sandwich has emerged.
There are lots of gays at the school I went to and would be a mon thg where I would notice other gays gog gno to Chick-fil-A, tryg to get their fix. ”John, a 26-year-old gay man who liv and works the New York Cy area, says he also ed to eat there as unrver as possible.
“Untentnally but subnscly, I was tryg to not be seen by the other gays that might be the area watchg me pull to the drive-th. ”PETA and the LGBTQ+ muny's "Chick-fil-A Is Anti-Gay! ”I am a 40-year-old gay Black man who for large swaths of his life red about how others perceived him.