Boo hoo...[wet tears streaming my face]...let's see now...Levi Strauss:
...annual grant-griver of groups like Planned Parenthood & the N.O.W. Legal Defense & Education Fund, the Children's Defense Fund (formerly chaired by Hillary), the Women's Legal Defense Fund, the liberal League of Women's Voters...
L.S.: named in THE 100 BEST COMPANIES FOR GAY MEN & LESBIANS (Ed Mickens, 1993) {domestic partnership benefits + managers partly appraised on the basis of workplace diversity support--nothing new now--but L.S. was a trend-setter at this in the late 80s & early 90s}...
L.S.: avid sponsor of the Gay Games + 12-page ad inserts in gay pubs like Out mag...
L.S.: cut off financial support of the Boy Scouts in '91--claiming it "will not provide support to organizations which, in their constitution or practice, discriminate against a person or group on the basis of sexual orientation...age*..." Hmm...age...ya gotta read the asterisk..."age"* EXCEPT FOR gestational age...Levi Strauss doesn't mind discriminating unto death vs. future employee pool (otherwise known as pre-born babes or "the next generation")