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Posted on 06/26/2006 1:27:31 PM PDT by DBeers
WASHINGTON, June 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) will make history on June 30 as the first organization for families and allies of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) people to ring the Closing Bell (SM) at the New York Stock Exchange.
PFLAG's trip to Wall Street - to "ring the closing bell on homophobia" - will be an opportunity for the group to discuss the exponentially growing reach of the buying power of GLBT Americans when coupled with the purchasing force of their families and friends.
"The purchasing power of the GLBT community is estimated today to be a massive $641 billion, with projections reaching $1 trillion by 2012. Add in the buying power of the millions of family members and friends who show fierce allegiance to fair- minded corporations, and you get a message that no company can afford to ignore: equality is good for business," said Jody M. Huckaby, executive director of the more than 200,000-member organization.
"This economic clout and product loyalty is only going to grow. We are here to give the business world this wake-up call and to help companies compete."
PFLAG leaders will be visiting the New York Stock Exchange to drive this point home to corporations around the globe. They come with new research to back their arguments that reveals that more than three-fourths of Americans personally know someone who is GLBT and those consumers are more likely than others to support companies that market to the gay and lesbian community.
"Equality in corporate America is more than just a trend. It is a reality that companies both large and small need to support in order to remain competitive. This is about much more than just GLBT people themselves. This is about the families, friends, coworkers, and other supporters who will be loyal to companies who invest in fairness for their GLBT loved ones - and that translates into employee loyalty, consumer base expansion and big economic gains today and in the years to come," Huckaby added.
The organization pointed to the expanding number of companies - including nearly half of Fortune 500 corporations - that embrace GLBT-friendly practices including domestic partner benefits, nondiscrimination policies, and financial support for organizations working to promote equality.
"There are thousands of parents just like me who will shop and spend with companies who support equality for my lesbian daughter," said Samuel Thoron, president of PFLAG who will be ringing the Closing Bell. "This is our opportunity to make sure that these corporations know that we're here, that we're paying attention, and that we influence their bottom line."
Corporations supporting PFLAG's appearance at the New York Stock Exchange on June 30 include American Airlines, Chubb, the Citigroup Foundation, Dow, IBM, Logo, the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, Pfizer, and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts.
Guess what their purchasing power is .... ;-)
Thank you very much for the list. I don't believe in boycotts... but neither do I personally plan to reward this garbage.
Yes, let's invest more in a demographic incapable of reproducing who has a history of transferring a terminal disease.
PFLAG's trip to Wall Street - to "ring the closing bell on homophobia" - will be an opportunity for the group to discuss the exponentially growing reach of the buying power of GLBT Americans when coupled with the purchasing force of their families and friends.
"ring the closing bell on homophobia"?
--once the bell promoting delusion is rung will homosexual agenda activists salivate in Pavlovian fashion?
Once it was Chesty Morgan, the stripper - remember her? As I recall - she got a standing ovation.
Perverts.
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There's that word again. I do not think it means what you think it means. |
The Actuarial Tables of your Life Expectancy project otherwise.
How much of that finacial power is government expense for medical care and diseases related to the homosexual lifestyle?
Not just aids but all sex diseases, then drug abuse, then of course the domestic violence courts.
Seem to me that they just took 10% of the ecconomy rather than 2% AT best.
Now how much homosexual related products outside the medical issues? seems there would be a very small market for homosexual pride parade wear.
I never cease to be amazed at how the left banters terminology around - for decades it has been "racism" or racist. And while they still use said term (just look at the screams of racism regarding the very real need to close the borders).
And this article uses the other favorite term of the left - "phobia", as in "homophobia".
But since when is disagreeing with a lifestyle CHOICE that flies directly in the face the Bible and core Christian beliefs (regardless of the claims of the left to the contrary - this country was FOUNDED on Christain principals), equate to a fear? I don't fear homosexuals - I pity them and their choices. But my heart reaches out to them, fully knowing that they can choose to turn from their sinful lifestyle in much the same way as all of us are suppose to turn from the sin in our lives.
But fear - not at all. But I also believe that people living in and advocating for said lifestyle have no business teaching my children, leading a boyscout troop, pastoring a church, or other functions that should be held to a somewhat higher moral standard.
But that is not fear....
Parents, families, and friends of prescription drug abusers. The pharmaceutical companies thrive on their purchasing power. They help out the financial status of doctors and medical clinics too. Sometimes even hospitals.
Their purchasing power was just as high when they were in the closet.
I, for one, am glad that lesbians, gays, bi-sexuals, the transgendered, the omni-sexual and the whatever-sexual are finally getting their share of the American Dream, and that Corporate America is stepping up to the plate to help.
Why, I remember the day when LGBT's were forced to live on the outskirts of town, in that hellish twilight zone known as the "other side of the tracks", in ramshackle huts (those who had homes, that is), but most often taking shelter wherever they could -- in holes dug in embankments or in makeshift tents fashioned under bridges with sheets of newspaper; eating the leftovers from dogs and scavengers; drinking from filthy mudholes; wearing whatever they could find, usually the discards from rescue missions. Yes, they've come a long way, baby, and I can't help but get a misty-eyed inspiration from their struggle, calling to mind the words of that old homosexual spiritual, "Free at last, Free at Last, Thank God Almighty, we're free at last."
I seem to recall this issue showing up on some ballots in a few states... Overwhelming majority oppose such nonsense. It would seem to be a prudent business move to cater to that large majority. But I guess we don't make a big enough stink to be on their radar.
It must be terribly painful for them to be so downtrodden for so long. I wonder how those Queer Eye guys are doing in the money/clothes dept. Probably better than me.
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