Posted on 03/19/2025 12:55:10 PM PDT by Red Badger
San Francisco’s 2025 gay Pride celebrations are scrambling for funds after their longtime sponsors jumped ship this week, jeopardizing the event’s future.
San Francisco Pride is now scrambling for other methods to raise $300,000 for this year’s festivities, SFGATE reported.
The timing of the event’s struggles is notable since they align with President Donald Trump’s crackdown on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts nationwide.
Suzanne Ford, San Francisco Pride’s executive director, said she was really disappointed by the sponsors’ decision to withdraw.
Sponsors pulling out of the Pride event include:
Comcast
Anheuser-Busch
La Crema
Diageo
The sponsors all cited a shortage of funds as their reason for exiting from San Francisco Pride but did not mention the current political climate in the U.S.
However, Ford noted that it was very abnormal for several longtime sponsors to suddenly drop their support for the festival.
“I just interpreted that companies are making decisions that at this time it’s not good to be sponsoring Pride,” Ford told SFGATE.
“I think in this political environment that they thought that was a risky decision. But that’s just me reading the tea leaves. I think for a long-term sponsor not to sponsor us, they are responding to what we are.”
Meanwhile, President Trump has been leading a massive push to eliminate DEI in the federal government, schools, and universities since signing his executive order to end “radical” and “wasteful” DEI programs.
Americans have largely supported efforts to eliminate diversity programs, with many corporations backpedaling their DEI policies.
See: BUD LIGHT/DYLAN MULVANEY...................
Just get the permits and have all the gays hump in the street for free, it’s what they really want. They don’t really need 300K for that crap
Sponsors are the Key to all the left’s Insanity
300k for a stupid parade no one needs.
LOL.
Are these former sponsors now considered bigoted anti gay companies?
I’ve heard that, outside of San Francisco, thirteen people are upset that Pride Week might be cancelled.
“La Crema” This one cancelling must be upsetting to those pervs
No more Gubment Money.
“Sponsees pulling out” was stated in the article
Do you suppose the writer threw that little line as a hidden jab? Accidental humor or intentional pun?
Anheuser-Busch has no choice. They took 5 steps back with that Dylan mess. And may have taken one step forward since. This would take them back to the good ole Dylan days.
But when the AIDS epidemic hit they were no where to be seen.
Talk about whistling past the graveyard.
Only 300K? Have Nancy and her husband pick up the tab, they can afford it.
Such a waste of money, space and time.
It has been my experience that the richer an amoral person is the stingier they are..............
Ford should have stopped right there.
Without booze distributors there is no gay pride.
The taxpayer money is gone!
Maybe Hunter could sell a painting or two and use the proceeds as the Biden Family’s contribution.
“La Crema” This one cancelling must be upsetting to those pervs”
How could anyone with a name like that even consider...?!
A judge will force USAID to support it.
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