to the lgbt community, and the statement is community false. we have a little bit of a he said, she said going on. as we hear from workers, we ll find out where the truth lies. as you asked, over the last year, you know, pride campaigns have been at fortune 500 companies for the last decade or so. over the last year, we have seen a surge in homophobic rhetoric, transphobic rhetoric coming from huge politicians like governor ron desantis, marjorie taylor greene, senator josh hawley. as this rhetoric becomes more and more normalized, blasted on fox news day in and day out, the demonization of lgbtq people has really grown about to the point where a company putting out a pride campaign, which would have been typical call a year ago or seemingly routine has now stoked outrage among the small but vocal cohort of conservative voters. would you say, though, that the companies that are responding to it, and you know,
Whether they re donating a portion of the profits from each item sold or giving a set amount to a charity, you can feel better knowing that you re not just getting cool stuff.
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they should make the mean something, and take steps necessary to keep people safe while still affirming the community. but we as a country have to stop giving these police what they want. we have to say pride is happening, lgbtq people exist, and you are just going to have to get over it. we only have about 30 seconds, but i want to talk about one of those companies that pushed back. you have a company like north face who took its own share of right-wing heat this year after featuring a drag queen in one of its pride ads, but instead of backing down to the presser, the company defended both the pride campaign and the spokes person by name. so why is it so hard for other companies not to follow that example and literally push back as you are just describing? i think they should. i think the start is to have deep conversations with the community, because the community will be there to support you if you show up and engage in deep conversation. i hope that target is having those conve