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- MOVE OVER, CHICK-FIL-A: CHIC FULL GAY MAK S MARK BURLGTON'S IED CHICKEN MARKET
- CHIC FULL GAY SUPPORTS PRI CENTER OF VERMONT AND BUDDG BS WH POPULAR POP-UP
- WH NEW KCHEN, ALEXANDRE'S SERV CHICK-FULL-GAY SANDWICH ON SUNDAYS ONLY
- GAYBORHOOD SPOTLIGHT: YUMMY AS CLUCK
MOVE OVER, CHICK-FIL-A: CHIC FULL GAY MAK S MARK BURLGTON'S IED CHICKEN MARKET
“I don’t try to take short cuts, ever, ” Gilrsleeve pop-up food bs is lled Chic Full Gay. ”More:One renowned Burlgton rtrant reopens, a newer one clos permanentlyMore:The Vermont rtrants and bars opened, expand or renovated this summerMore:Vermont Comedy Club Burlgton tak food, ffee serly at new Happy Place CaféGilrsleeve chose the name Chic Full Gay for the bs as a direct nod to Chick-fil-A’s LGBTQ polici. She wanted to attend the pop-ups they’ve been dog Essex sce Gilrsleeve began Chic Full Gay January 2021, but found was hard for her to get there.
” She said she also appreciat the statement the name Chic Full Gay mak as well as s playfulns. Peter and Judy Gilrsleeve drove about an hour and a half each way om their home Proctor to de on Chic Full Gay’s sandwich si The Gilrsleeve said Bryan, 33, has wanted to be a chef sce childhood. ”Gilrsleeve hop to open a brick-and-mortar eatery one day — likely a small space remblg an door food rt — but for now is dog well wh the Chic Full Gay pop-ups.
CHIC FULL GAY SUPPORTS PRI CENTER OF VERMONT AND BUDDG BS WH POPULAR POP-UP
” Chic Full Gay posted Wednday on Instagram. 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. 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. Others said that their Chick-fil-A -workers and supervisors didn’t tolerate homophobic behavr om lleagu.
WH NEW KCHEN, ALEXANDRE'S SERV CHICK-FULL-GAY SANDWICH ON SUNDAYS ONLY
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.
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. 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. While Chick-fil-A’s donatn strategy has changed for the time beg, still rri an image of beg anti-gay. 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).
GAYBORHOOD SPOTLIGHT: YUMMY AS CLUCK
In short, Chick-fil-A uld vt s future by ntug to distance self om s past anti-gay actns. Diversy is lic, homophobia is not.
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.