A gay fense of Chick-fil-A

Contents:

• I’M GAY AND I EAT AT CHICK-FIL-A. SHOULD I FEEL ASHAMED?
• “I THK WE HAVE A GAY BAR”
• CHIC FULL GAY SUPPORTS PRI CENTER OF VERMONT AND BUDDG BS WH POPULAR POP-UP 
• GAY CHIC-FIL-A EMPLOYE SPEAK OUT
• FDG OUT WTBROOK’S CHICK-FIL-A IS OWNED BY TWO GAY MEN MA ME PSE
• GAY CHICK-FIL-A WORKERS SPEAK OUT
• A GAY FENSE OF CHICK-FIL-A
• I'M BLACK AND GAY AND I'LL STILL EAT AT CHICK-FIL-A
• GAY EMPLOYE OF CHICK-FIL-A SPEAK OUT! THEY'RE CGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A HEATED PUBLIC DEBATE

I’M GAY AND I EAT AT CHICK-FIL-A. SHOULD I FEEL ASHAMED?

But when Orville Peck’s myster barone follows the twangy guar to “My mama told me when I was young/ We are all born superstars, ” brgs the gay anthem to another level. If you walk to a gay club wh the next few months and don’t hear the openg, heart-poundg stras of Vct’s “Kill My Heart, ” ll the police, bee a crime has been mted. Tett Cathy and his wife Jeate Cathy, has donated over $1 ln to groups that actively oppose same-sex marriage, cludg Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Fom; the anti-LGBTQ Christian group Foc on the Fay; the SLPC-certified hate group Fay Rearch Council; the now-funct ex-gay therapy group Exod Internatnal; the exclively for-heterosexuals-only Marriage & Fay Legacy Fund; and the Fellowship of Christian Athlet (FCA), a relig groups whose “sexual pury policy” prohibs any homosexual acts.

“I THK WE HAVE A GAY BAR”

However, The Chick-fil-A Foundatn’s IRS filgs om 2015 revealed that the foundatn donated $1 ln to the FCA; $200, 000 to the Pl Anrson Youth Home, a Geia-based rintial home for troubled youth which said that child abe homosexualy; and $130, 000 to the Salvatn Army, a relig ternatnal chary that has long opposed same-sex marriage and anti-LGBTQ hog discrimatn protectns while supportg relig exemptns om LGBTQ+ anti-discrimatn laws. One anonymo gay worker disuraged boytts, notg that they would mostly harm the cha’s LGBTQ+ employe, but also acced the rtrant’s anti-gay and Christian supporters of beg self-righteo, arrogant, and bld to LGBTQ+ sufferg. Several gay employe said some ctomers offered homophobic words of support for the bs while other people yelled at employe for supportg a homophobic pany.

Chick-fil-A’s supporters have enuraged the pany to embrace s anti-gay social stanc, while s crics have urged the pany to turn away om s anti-LGBTQ+ practic. In 2012, gay activists and alli staged a natnal boytt of the cha after one lotn donated food to a semar hosted by the anti-gay Pennsylvania Fay Instute.

CHIC FULL GAY SUPPORTS PRI CENTER OF VERMONT AND BUDDG BS WH POPULAR POP-UP 

Too often, those on the left make rporate statements to show support for same-sex marriage, abortn, or profany, but if Christians affirm tradnal valu, we’re nsired homophobic, fundamentalists, hate-mongers, and tolerant.

GAY CHIC-FIL-A EMPLOYE SPEAK OUT

On Augt 3, 2012, however, gay rights activists around the natn held kiss- protts opposn to the rtrant’s anti-LGBTQ+ donatns and Dan Cathy’s views agast same-sex marriage. Around the same time, gay artist Manny Castro spray-pated a Torrance, California Chick-fil-A rtrant wh a picture of a w and the words “Tast Like Hate” prott of Cathy’s anti-gay statements.

The Amerin Fay Associatn also circulated a petn which stated, “It looks like you (Chick-fil-A) are abandong Christian valu and agreeg wh homosexual activists who say believg the Bible mak you a hater. In September 2022, Alexandre’s Bar the Dallas gayborhood of Oak Lawn announced the sale of s own “Chick-fil-gAy” sandwich that was only available on Sundays (the day on which all Chick-fil-A lotns are closed).

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.

FDG OUT WTBROOK’S CHICK-FIL-A IS OWNED BY TWO GAY MEN MA ME PSE

Gays: Sometim we eat at social media, posts about this taboo take particular hold durg Pri Month, when shame is supposed to be banished favor of celebratn. But Chick-fil-A is only closed on Sundays — not all June urse, for some members of the LGBTQ+ muny and our alli, eatg at Chick-fil-A is the ultimate transgrsn agast our terie — and when you look at some of the evince, for a gay person, ’s hard to argue 's ntroversial historyIt all started 2010, when the WShape Foundatn, a charable enavor of Chick-fil-A founr S.

GAY CHICK-FIL-A WORKERS SPEAK OUT

” When Chick-fil-A gave over $8 ln to the foundatn 2010, WShape then donated $2 ln of the funds received om Chick-fil-A to seven anti-LGBTQ+ groups, cludg The Fay Rearch Council, an anizatn listed as an “anti-gay hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law went on for years, cludg 2012 when Dan Cathy said that Ameri was “vg God’s judgment” for entertag the ia of same-sex marriage and later said “guilty as charged” when asked if he thought marriage equaly should not then, Cathy has openly voiced his anti-LGBTQ+ opns and personally donated to anti-LGBTQ+ groups.

Several articl, thk piec and tweets later, Chick-fil-A’s charable foundatn said halted s donatns to three groups agast gay marriage 2019, cludg the Salvatn Army and the Fellowship of Christian is even as Cathy has ntued to donate (om his personal funds) as recently as 2021 to anizatns acced of fundg opposn to The Equaly Act, which would expand civil protectns for LGBTQ+ people.

A GAY FENSE OF CHICK-FIL-A

“I have a joke my standup that is, ‘Gay people got me hired at Chick-fil-A and that’s how I started workg there, ” Ryan Leach, 31, a gay edian and former Chick-fil-A employee tells “There was a small group of my hometown, we all knew each other was gay and one of them worked at Chick-fil-A and got the rt of hired. “To which I would say, ‘Well, I’ve never met a self-rpectg gay person, but if I did, they probably wouldn’t work at Chick-fil-A.

“It seems sort of nscendg and shallow bee no one n school you on the vlence of evangelil Christiany better than a gay who was workg at Chick-fil-A, bee was d pared to the thgs that we were exposed to as children. ” Chris, a gay 32-year-old who also asked that we only e his first name to protect his inty, says he’s arrived at that cisn for himself: He don’t feel ashamed for eatg at Chick-fil-A. Their reasons for this may be slightly different, but the mon nomator was a fear of the wrath of every gay person on the ter.

I'M BLACK AND GAY AND I'LL STILL EAT AT CHICK-FIL-A

Fire, who prevly bartend at a late-night gay bar lled the Loadg Dock, had never seen anythg like Sundays she oked. She wanted to thank the old guys—hell, the gay guys weren’t exactly knockg down the door—and, bis, they looked like they uld e a meal. Four years, five years, until the sexy gay boys fally showed a cince that thgs started to change the mute she put a piece of art on the walls?

GAY EMPLOYE OF CHICK-FIL-A SPEAK OUT! THEY'RE CGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A HEATED PUBLIC DEBATE

Maybe a bar n by a woman who self-intifi as beg of “termate sexual proclivi”—a bar named Big Chicks, for Christ’s sake—never had a chance of beg a typil gay that typil was the goal.

Photo by W Frazer“The unmon energy of muny”“When you travel around the untry, you realize how homogenized everythg has bee, ” Fire says to me.