Chick-fil-A Print Com Clean About Company's Anti-Gay Philosophy | Media Matters for Ameri

Contents:

• CHICK-FIL-A RPONDS TO ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY ON FACEBOOK
• DRAG QUEENS MAKE HILAR 'COMMERCIAL' TAKG ON CHICK-FIL-A'S ANTI-GAY FUNDG—HERE'S TODAY'S AD BRIEF
• I’M GAY AND I EAT AT CHICK-FIL-A. SHOULD I FEEL ASHAMED?
• CHICK-FIL-A HALTS DONATNS TO 3 GROUPS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• CHICK-FIL-A PRINT COM CLEAN ABOUT COMPANY'S ANTI-GAY PHILOSOPHY

CHICK-FIL-A RPONDS TO ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY ON FACEBOOK

When asked about his pany's reported donatns to anti-gay anizatns like Exod Internatnal and the Fay Rearch Council, Cathy told wrer K.

" Add HuffPost Gay Voic blogger and theater profsor Domenick Scura: "Sce Mr. In Febary, Northeastern Universy officials reportedly squashed plans for a mp-based anchise of the fast food cha, after "stunt ncerns reflected [Chick-fil-A's] history of donatg to anti-gay anizatns, " acrdg to The Boston Globe. While this lotn is owned by a anchisee rather than Chick-fil-A's parent pany, as is the se wh many of the cha's lotns across the untri, has reigned a now -long nversatn about Chick-fil-A's charable givg and what Vox once scribed as "s reputatn as a homophobic purveyor of lic chicken sandwich" — both of which are important to unrstand as ntext for this se.

When did allegatns of "homophobia" agast Chick-fil-A surface? In rponse to a discsn about some of the cha's stanc tied to Cathy's relig beliefs— such as remag closed on Sunday as is "the Lord's Day, " acrdg to an archived Chick-fil-A prs release — Cathy said he felt people were "vg God's judgment on our natn" by supportg the legalizatn of gay marriage. But that "wasn't the first time the Cathys were acced of homophobia, " Vox noted.

DRAG QUEENS MAKE HILAR 'COMMERCIAL' TAKG ON CHICK-FIL-A'S ANTI-GAY FUNDG—HERE'S TODAY'S AD BRIEF

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. Tett Cathy, had donated "nearly $2 ln to anti-gay groups" 2010. In 2012, followg news of Cathy's terviews and Chick-fil-A's charable givg, a number of gay wrers and activists rpond.

"Let's face : spe what the pany's print says, Chick-Fil-A is an anti-gay rporatn, " Tyler Coat wrote for BlackBook. "And, on that note, I'm jt gog to have to assume that anyone who spends their money there are pletely fe wh the fact that an anti-gay rporatn not only exists, but ph money to other groups to ntue the wispread practice of discrimatg agast everyone the LGBT muny.

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

Acrdg to CNN, some participants noted that they had planned to pay wh dollar bills marked "gay money, " while others circulated the phrase "tast like hate.

In a parody vio of Wilson Phillips' "Hold On, " drag queens Willam Belli, Detox, and Vicky Vox have created this hilar "mercial" takg on Chick-fil-A's $2 ln fundg of anti-gay (the UK versn of Axe) is sponsorg panda matg season at Edburgh the ncellatn of The Rosie Show, Oprah's OWN has laid off 30 staff is on the lookout for a new agency that will help crease s populary among a young and multicultural dience, Ad Age reports. 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!

CHICK-FIL-A HALTS DONATNS TO 3 GROUPS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

”I am a 40-year-old gay Black man who for large swaths of his life red about how others perceived him. As I waed for my orr the store, I wonred if my outf ma me look gay for the first time years.

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.

” 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.

CHICK-FIL-A PRINT COM CLEAN ABOUT COMPANY'S ANTI-GAY PHILOSOPHY

A protter at PETA and the LGBTQ+ muny's "Chick-fil-A Is Anti-Gay! 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.

“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. A lot of gay people get mad at me about that, ” Leach says a standup route he posted on Instagram. “They’re like, ‘What kd of self-rpectg gay person would ever work at Chick-fil-A?

“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.