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Every Pride month, consumers see their favorite brands add rainbow stripes to their logos, fly flags from their headquarters buildings and add attractive gay and lesbian couples to their ads….sounds good, right?
These companies must have a gay positive agenda… and deserve our support! Or so they would like you to think.
Shoot...
a survey by Harris Interactive found "approximately two-thirds of LGBT adults, or roughly 66 percent, would be very or somewhat likely to remain loyal to a company or brand they believed to be supportive of the LGBT community
Let’s hear it for these cooperations
But the reality?
Of the most LGBTQ-supportive corporations in America, nine of them gave about $1 million or more each to anti-gay politicians in the last election cycle.
Among them:
1. AT&T donated $2,755,000 to 193 anti-gay politicians.
2. UPS donated $2,366,122 to 159 anti-gay politicians.
3. Comcast donated $2,116,500 to 154 anti-gay politicians.
4. Home Depot donated $1,825,500 to 111 anti-gay politicians.
5. General Electric donated $1,380,500 to 97 anti-gay politicians.
6. FedEx donated $1,261,500 to 75 anti-gay politicians.
7. UBS donated $1,094,750 to 72 anti-gay politicians.
8. Verizon donated $1,022,803 to 74 anti-gay politicians.
9. Pfizer donated $959,263 to 52 anti-gay politicians.
.So before you celebrate the inclusiveness of these companies you might want to think again..