Palm Springs locals in uproar over possible Chick-fil-A location

SF Gate ^ | April 11, 2024 | By Karen Palmer

[NohSpinZone]

Chick-fil-A, the nationwide fast food chain known not only for its fried chicken sandwiches but also for its charitable foundation’s history of donating to organizations with anti-LGBTQ+ leanings, is facing a community uproar over a proposed new California location in the very gay-friendly city of Palm Springs, according to the Desert Sun and the Palm Springs Post.

Plans for the new location at The Springs, a shopping plaza at the northeast corner of Ramon Road and Gene Autry Trail, have been formally submitted to the desert city, but the project is on hold as the company negotiates with the shopping center’s owner. According to the Palm Springs Post, Chick-fil-A would demolish a building that used to house the California Nurses Educational Institute. It would then construct a 6,000-square-foot fast food restaurant with indoor and outdoor dining, as well as a three-lane drive-thru.

Palm Springs has long been a bastion for the LGBTQ+ community, dating back well over a century, when Hollywood stars would escape to the desert city for privacy and relaxation. Business organizations and the like became more politically active in the 1970s, and in the 1990s, LGBTQ+ tourism started to boom. Today, more than 100,000 people attend the Pride celebration held annually in November, and the city even saw the opening of an LGBTQ+ friendly senior living development recently, complete with a restaurant from legendary chefs Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger.

[ConservativeWarrior]

It’s that bad. My girlfriend and I were yelled and jeered at for merely walking down the street as a normal heterosexual couple.

Yelled at by an effeminate black man dressed in a string bikini.

Every restaurant’s restrooms are labeled “Women” and another “Anyone - One at a Time”.

[KittyKares]

You were jeered at for being normal?! And by a weirdo, no less? That’s getting scary.