Now’s the time when you see who the real allies are. The corporations were using the gay community for marketing.
This has always been the case with corporations. They operate for profit and nothing else.
If supporting social causes seems like a way to generate more profit, they do it. If it doesn’t, they don’t.
Corporations are not moral or ethical entities. They exist to generate money. Period. Anything suggesting the contrary is a lie designed to make more money.
Maybe we should have people dying of AIDS on the streets so we can all learn while singing the Bohemian Rhapsody while dancing like Michael Jackson.
The orange fat scarecrow would do that. Over the weekend he personally let Israel bomb Gaza again and Iran the hothies. According to the news which I’m totally misrepresenting and misremembering… A bunch of kids died there. If I had anything to do with something like that, I’d be crying and I would quit. But not orange man. That guy keeps doubling down. How about a bunch of twin babies and their moms? Eh Mr Orange? Is that enough murder?
Oh no, not the corporations. And here we thought they were ride or die and would always have the backs of the LGBTQ community!
Fuck 'em. Who wants or needs them? Queer people are not an “investment.”
Hold pride in the middle of nowhere to save money. Call it “Hot Human”. The hookup spot is in the mud pit behind the bushes
I’m not lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or questioning, but I’ve been to Pride events in San Francisco, and a few other cities, because they’re fun and inspiring and subversive! Pre-corporate, Pride was about announcing yourself and being yourself, and I don’t know what the heck Comcast or Anheuser-Busch adds to that, beyond muddying the event by making it about cable TV or beer or something. My straight gut says, going without corporate sponsorships will make the parades and parties more fun.
Change the name from pride to rage, and protest against gay rights and you’ll probably get funding and no straw in your way
Boy wait untl you hear how Pride day got started.
By protesting against gay rights?
I misread your comment but it started as a riot.
Rename pride to the stonewall parade
Tbf there was a typo there that obfuscated things a bit.
I’ve been to Pride events outside of the US and not a fucking corporate sponsor in sight with their goofy gayed-out logos and they were awesome. Fun, informative, inclusive and free. We can celebrate all of these “inclusive” events by not buying a single “corporate” product for the whole month, starting with those that used to show support.
I think now is a great time to separate pride events from these corporate scum. They never have been and will never be allies, just opportunists who would just as willingly burn parades to the ground if it maximizes profit. The capitalist machine will never be your friend.
Pride in Ottawa, Canada this year was pretty much corporate-less because the organisers publicly came out in support of Palestine and said they’d only accept companies on the right side of history in the parade
Corporations being corporations, most dropped out since they always have to be 100% safe on any statements of support obviously. It was actually so much better without them though.
I want to go to Pride in Amsterdam. The parade is a boat parade along the canals.
My take: business interests do not in the main care about Pride or DEI. They care about PR.
Pride is a resistance not a party! Get back to our roots. We don’t need another US Bank float.
I get it, but it would be great if we could’ve kept it as a party. The community has already fought so much. The floats were basically the only way some people understood that LGBT+ was mainstream and accepted now. Rainbow capitalism is bad, obviously, but it’s still devastating to see even that get taken away. Our roots should never have had to be resistance and it’s sad to see it’s come back to that. Same with several other communities. Having struggle be thrust upon you just by virtue of who you are is terrible for mental and physical health. I was looking forward to seeing the next generation thrive. I don’t want to see them in the trenches. I want them to party. I want them to celebrate. I want job fairs at pride to be full of the worst Fortune 500 companies desperately trying to recruit from the community. I want them to live normal lives where they’re not othered just for being and pride had evolved into a celebration of that.
I want to see big brick as a sponcer.
Their float can just be a lowboy loaded with bricks and someone handing out.
Or Luigi’s Guillotines LLC
Brother i’m with ya, but I’ve also met too many right leaning LGBTQ+ and it breaks my fuckin heart
Fucking cowards and class traitors. Palm Springs gays need to fuck off!
All I want in this life is a working class homo to follow me home and stay.
Hi, I’m a working class homo far leftist.
Am i witness to a lemmy match making moment grabs kleenex
I’m married though. But I’ll see y’all in the LGBTQ+ camps to fight during the revolution.
This how it is. It always has been like that. This is one of the things that helped the right gain power.
As someone that is gay, it’s been something that pisses me off too. They use LGBT culture. It’s like they market the LGBT stereotypes. I think that a lot of the “normal” naive Republicans saw this as well and didn’t understand when they voted for anti dei it actually meant this Nazi esque stuff going on now. I think they actually just wanted to stop the marketing and abuse of LGBT culture by shitty businesses.
LGBT culture was basically sold out the same way hip-hop culture was. Once they can make money off it the culture gets raped.
its called rainbow capitalism, a form of virtue signalling, and also performative politics.
It’s like people only do things because they get paid, and that’s just really sad
But yeah, our corporate oligarchs and the billionaire class are evil manipulative money-grubbing leeches and we’ve let them run unchecked for way too long.
which is the current flavor of politics at the moment, one moment things like shows and movies VIRTUE signal minorities, the next they virtue signal for snowflake Christians.
in 20 years there will not be a Donald Trump. there may or may not be a united states. but there will absolutely be gays and trans people.
Not much is going to change if Trump dies… It might even get worse.
I think it would. None of these other guys have the charisma to hold together his movement. You have to have a personality to maintain a cult of personality.
Christ, you’d think
I think it would get worse. Vance and Johnson are huge pieces of shit.
That is beautiful.
including Comcast, Anheuser-Busch, Diageo, and La Crema, which is owned by Jackson Family Wines.
Media has to just name names going forward, all of them. This planet needs to know what evil to avoid. Good this article did, although I wonder who they might have omitted.
Unfortunately for Comcast they’re so dog shit they don’t need to be named haha. Everyone knows how awful they are.
Never forget that Pride started as a riot.
The way all these companies have ditched gay rights really clarifies how much of an empty gesture the month of rainbow banners was (and how much of an empty gesture this probably is). But I think I liked it better when they did an empty gesture in support of gay rights rather than against them
I’ve been trying to keep track of which companies are sticking with it. Costco and Apple both seem to be staying the course with DEI in particular.
Kohls is too. They kept the policies but changed the title of the DEI program to hide from conservatives.
Rainbow capitalism.
kinda wanna make a pride float with all the banners of companies that abandoned pride this year
Oh, that’s a good one.
It seems short sighted because the rest of the west isn’t nearly as bad as the USA. Do they really think the American right wing population is THAT worth pandering to that they’d give up their reputation to everyone else?
Maybe now they can put up swastikas as an empty gesture toward president musk
The one time I went to Pride I was disappointed with how it was basically a bunch of corporate advertisements. I’d be happy to go again if the tone changes.
The president himself couldn’t save Tesla stock. The president doesn’t have the power that the people do.
These companies are on the wrong fucking side.
