After chairman Guido Barilla rebed gay fai on natnal rad, his CEO spent five years cleang up the pany’s reputatn.
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DID BARILLA PASTA'S CHAIRMAN MAKE ANTI-GAY REMARKS?
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“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. 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.
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.
BARILLA GO OM WORST TO FIRST ON GAY RIGHTS
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.