Target has repeatedly boasted about efforts to support the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, also known as GLSEN, an entity which helps teachers place LGBTQ books in school libraries and hide their students’ so-called gender transitions from parents. …
The retail behemoth boasted last year about donating more than $2.1 million to GLSEN over the past decade, lauding the group’s mission to create “affirming, accessible, and antiracist spaces for LGBTQIA+ students.” Target also actively promotes GLSEN on its online store.
“We are grateful to Target for their funding of this retrospective and for their support of GLSEN’s work in student leadership and educator trainings,” former GLSEN executive director Eliza Byard said in a statement several years ago about a documentary the two entities produced. “Together, we have been able to change school climates for LGBT youth.”
(via Twitchy)
[At least they’re consistent — and at least their consumers know about it more broadly now. I’d guess that Target is getting close to crossing the Bud Light Line in terms of brand poisoning. I wonder if they’ll learn a lesson from A-B InBev and start apologizing, or whether they’ll hem and haw and lose everyone in the process? — Ed]
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