Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈May 26, 2023

#Brands can’t sit out the #culturewars—whether they like it or not.

As #shareholder #meetings become #cultural #battlegrounds, #companies are forced to consider what their #brands stand for.

— As they said in #Hamilton the #Musical, “If you stand for nothing, what'll you fall for?”

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Business #Allies #Conservatives #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.fastcompany.com/90900429/brands-culture-wars-esg

Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈May 26, 2023

Major #brands like #Target, #BudLight, #Dodgers, and #Disney faced pressure from #conservatives to #target #LGBTQ #people.

Instead of #standingup for their #principles, they #backeddown, pleasing #conservative #extremists. The impact of this conservative strategy is being celebrated.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/target-bud-light-are-conservatives-new-favorite-targets-rcna86235

Why Target and Bud Light are conservatives' new favorite targets

Target, Bud Light, the Dodgers and Disney have all been backed into a corner over their support of the LGBTQ community. Conservative activists are celebrating.

NBC News
Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

#Conservatives #admit that #BudLight & #Target #boycotts are about making #Pride “#toxic” to #corporations.

#AntiLGBTQ+ #trolls including Self-Admitted #Fascist #MattWalsh and “lets #eliminate #trans #people #MichaelKnowles finally #SaidTheQuietPartOutLoud.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/05/conservatives-admit-that-bud-light-target-boycotts-are-about-making-pride-toxic-to-corporations/

Conservatives admit that Bud Light & Target boycotts are about making Pride “toxic” to corporations - LGBTQ Nation

Anti-LGBTQ+ trolls Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles finally said the quiet part loud.

LGBTQ Nation
May 26, 2023 at 8:50pmWeb
Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈May 26, 2023

#Conservatives #admit that #antiPride #backlash #protests are designed to make #Pride so “#toxic” to #brands, they think twice about their #support for the #LGBTQ #community

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/25/2171429/-Conservatives-admit-that-anti-Pride-backlash-is-designed-to-make-Pride-toxic-to-brands

Conservatives admit that anti-Pride backlash is designed to make Pride "toxic" to brands

As we get closer and closer to the beginning of Pride month around the country (June 1st), Conservative firebrands and anti-transgender megatroll Matt Walsh finally says the quiet part out loud: that conservative backlash against brands supporting...

Daily Kos
Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈May 26, 2023

[#Audio] What #Target Needs to #Understand.

@charlotteclymer points out that #Bigots are starving for #outrage

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-target-needs-to-understand#details

What Target Needs to Understand

Listen now (8 min) | Bigots are starving for outrage.

Charlotte's Web Thoughts
Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈May 26, 2023

#Target on the #defensive after removing some #products aimed at #LGBTQ+ people.

Target once #distinguished itself as being #boldly #supportive of the #LGBTQ+ #community. Now that #status is #tarnished after it removed some #products aimed at LGBTQ+ and relocated #PrideMonth #displays to the back of #stores in response to #online #complaints and #instore #confrontations that it says #threatened #employees’ #wellbeing

https://apnews.com/article/target-lgbtq-pride-month-bathing-suits-21393e91a8eb6110b46623d17a3bf507

Target on the defensive after removing some products aimed at LGBTQ+

NEW YORK (AP) — Target once distinguished itself as being boldly supportive of the LGBTQ+ community. Now that status is tarnished after it removed some products aimed at LGBTQ+ and relocated Pride Month displays to the back of stores in certain Southern locations in response to online complaints and in-store confrontations that it says threatened employees’ well-being.

Associated Press
Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈May 26, 2023

#Target #stores #attacked by #homophobes following #backlash to #Pride #collection

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/26/target-pride-collection-backlash-videos/

Target stores attacked by homophobes following backlash to Pride collection

Target stores across the US have been attacked by right-wing extremists as the obsessive backlash over its Pride collection grows.

PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news
Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈May 26, 2023

#Target #Corp. #Stresses #Core #Values As #Conservatives #Rail Against #Retailer’s #WishyWashy #Support Of #LGBTQIA+ #Community

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sharonedelson/2023/05/25/target-corp-stresses-core-values-as-conservatives-rail-against-retailers-support-of-lgbtqia-community/?sh=50b1be6657b5

Target Corp. Stresses Core Values As Conservatives Rail Against Retailer’s Support Of LGBTQIA+ Community

For 10 years, Target has offered exclusive Pride merchandise, with over 150 inclusive products available in all stores, the retailer said, adding that it also celebrat...

Forbes
Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈May 26, 2023

A former #Trump #administration #official blasted ongoing #conservative-led #boycotts of #brands #supportive of the #transgender #community, saying the #movement is setting the stage for a "#totalitarian" #suppression of #LGBTQ+ #rights

https://www.newsweek.com/ex-trump-official-blasts-anti-trans-boycott-1802729

Ex-Trump Official Blasts Anti-Trans Boycott

"That's not a conservative position," Alyssa Farrah Griffin said. "That's frankly a very totalitarian position. We are going way too far."

Newsweek
Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈May 26, 2023

#Orders #surge for #trans #designer after #Target #pulls their products.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/orders-surge-trans-designer-target-133337941.html

Yahooist Teil der Yahoo Markenfamilie

Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈May 26, 2023

#Target’s #LGBTQ+ #Pride #Marketing May Be #ESG #driven

#Environmental, #social, and #governance, or #ESG, is a type of #financial #investing where #factors beyond strictly #financial #matters are considered. #Fundmanagers #score #companies based on varying and undefined #factors. #Companies also choose what #actions they wish to #highlight in their #ESG #report

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmcgowan/2023/05/25/targets-lgbtq-pride-marketing-may-be-esg-driven/?sh=531ee75f31f2

Target’s LGBTQ+ Pride Marketing May Be ESG Driven

Target is the latest corporation to face backlash for LGBTQ+ pride merchandise, ESG may have been a factor in Target's decision making process.

Forbes
Show threadRobert 🏳️‍🌈May 26, 2023
@Susan_Larson_TN Newsweek has been sacrificed to the highest right wing bidder. Notice how they attack Griffin with the most agree with gay marriage, but the religious don't. So that is supposed to be the declining acceptance? They have never accepted anything but their white bread and white Jesus ideals. White Religion is losing face and they can't handle not being able to tell others how to live. Idjuts!
Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈May 26, 2023
@hwtrebor I strongly support everying leaving organized religion. #EmptyThePews is close to my heart